Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Louise Bagshawe has stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest on Centre Right by castigating the Carlton Club for its policy of not allowing women to be full members. She is, of course, totally right. The Carlton is, of course, good enough to allow women into the place, for which I am sure the ladies are very grateful indeed. Some argue that as a private club they should have whatever policy they like. On...
Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics Back in March, I wrote about the perennial headlines that seem to have been appearing in our newspapers for the past thirty years: “WI aims to ditch ‘jam and Jerusalem’ image”, “Carlton Club to vote on women”, “Row over MPs’ expenses”. Sure enough, it has again been reported that the Carlton Club is to vote on giving its lady associate members full rights. My friend and...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
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Enough is Enough (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Louise Bagshawe on Conservative Home and TV's Iain Dale both take the view that the members of the Carlton Club should vote to allow women to become full members of that august body today. Thankfully one of the few areas where our politically correct and malevolent equality legislation does not apply is in respect of our gentlemen's clubs. The smoking ban may have been imposed on them but, thus far...
