New Labour ladies lunch at a bastion of male chauvinism

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 17, 1999| Author: Donald Macintyre | Copyright information

IN AN almost orgiastic display of political incorrectness, the Cabinet's two best known women members yesterday lunched at that redoubt of male chauvinism - the Garrick Club.

New Labour politicians have long been known to be specialists in rebuttal. But Mo Mowlam, Minister at the Cabinet Office and Baroness Jay, Leader of the Lords and women's minister, have now elevated the skill to an art form.

In order to dispel the widespread belief that the government was out to ban men-on...

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