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As Labour Women’s Conference meets, ANGELA RAYNER sets out how a Corbyn-led government will bring about a fairer society for women
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner

THIS weekend Labour’s Women’s Conference is a chance to reflect on the strides the labour movement has made in fighting inequality but also to remind us of how far we have to go.
 
That is pretty obvious in politics itself. As a working-class trade unionist, arriving in Parliament was like entering a different world. 

Like a lot of the women elected as Labour MPs in the last two elections, it was made clear that we were different. 

Often I face a wall of wealthy white men on the benches opposite. After one of my first appearances at the despatch box, a Daily Mail columnist wrote that I must have got lost from the set of Little Britain. And I know the prejudice faced by my ethnic minority colleagues has been even worse.
 
As a Labour Party we can start tackling that. But a Labour government will need to change not just politics but the country as a whole. 

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