Record Number Of Women To Stand In 2019 General Election
(World News UK)

A record number of women will stand in the December general election. Provisional analysis, carried out by the PA news agency, shows that a total of 1,120 female candidates have registered – 34% of the total. This is the highest proportion of women candidates in a general election in history, up from 29% in 2017 and 26% in 2015. More than half of all Labour’s...