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They say a picture tells a thousand words. At Prime Minister's Questions this

week there wasn't a single woman on the government's front bench. David

Cameron runs his government like an Old Boys Network. No wonder he is

failing women across this country.

As ordinary, hard-working people

struggle with the cost of living crisis,

women are being hit hardest by

David Camerons failure to act.

Under David Cameron, the gap

between mens and women's pay

increased for the first time in five years and issues affecting women's pay like

affordable childcare and the exploitative use of zero hours contracts are brushed

aside.

David Cameron promised he would modernise his party so he could stand up

for women, but he has failed on both counts.

Just 5 out of 33 people attending his Cabinet are women compared to 14 out of

32 sitting around Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet table.

Having women at the top of the Labour Party makes a difference to how we

think and what we do. It shows women across the country how we aspire to

govern.

Labour will fight for a new kind of One Nation politics, because we believe

Britain is strongest when everybody's voice is heard.

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WHY DAVID CAMERON IS FAILINGWOMEN ACROSS THIS COUNTRY

Bob BlizzardWaveney PPC07 February

2014

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While millions of families across Britain face the worst cost-of-livingcrisis for generations, this Tory-led Government listens only to a

privileged few.

We need to change that. That's why I'm backing Ed Miliband's big

reform to the Labour Party announced this week.

In order to form a truly One Nation government, which gives more

power over to people to better shape their communities and the

decisions that affect their lives, we have to start by opening up and

changing the Labour Party itself.

Politics and political parties need to change, and with these

proposals Labour is leading the way.

The changes are designed to ensure One Nation Labour is a party

that reaches out to all the people of Britain. They are bold, and will

strengthen our connection with people and communities

throughout our country

By bringing more people into the Labour Party and showing them

why we are different, we are telling them who we are as a Party and

how we aspire to govern.

LABOUR WILL TACKLE RISING INSECURITY AT WORK

Recent figures show that the number of people feeling insecure at work has almost doubled from 6.5

million to 12 million since David Cameron became Prime Minister.

This is a shocking legacy of his time in power. That is why I voted for his government to take action to

stop this rising insecurity in a special parliamentary debate on Wednesday.

There has been a rise in the number of employees on zero-hours contracts since 2010, with some

figures estimating there could be as many as 1 million people now employed on them. The number of

people working part time, but who want to work full time has risen by more than 350,000 to over 1.4

million over the same period. Many of these people are paid the National Minimum Wage which has

declined in value by almost 5 per cent under David Cameron.

Weve got to put a stop to this. Thats why Labour announced plans to ban zero -hours contracts where

they exploit people, to end the scandal of false self-employment, strengthen the National Minimum

Wage and incentivise employers to pay a Living Wage through make work pay contracts.

Labour will always stand up for hard-working people, and the next Labour government will tacklerising insecurity at work by ensuring that Waveney is properly equipped to earn its way out of the cost

of living crisis.

Labour s proposals for changeinclude:- Giving trade union members a real

choice over the payment of affiliationfees to Labour for the first time;

- Giving people who wish to become

affiliated supporters a real voicewithin a genuinely One NationLabour Party;

- Giving everyone who wants a directindividual relationship with theLabour Party a vote in leadership

elections according to the principles ofOne Member, One Vote, in whicheveryone is treated as equal in worth

to anyone else;

- Giving Londoners the chance toengage in politics with a primary

introduced for the selection of

Labours candidate for mayor;

- A guarantee to communities that

Labour's process for selecting

candidates is free from manipulationand fair to ever one.

POLITICS MUST CHANGE TO BEAT THE WORST

COST-OF- LIVING CRISIS FOR GENERATIONS