Last night, for a brief moment, we only had two MPs: both in Sunderland, both women, and both Labour. Sadly, on the second point at least, it was all downhill from there.
Earlier this week we predicted an increase of 45 female MPs this election on last time’s total of 148. This was reliant on a roughly hung parliament between Labour and the Conservatives – something that hasn’t happened. Instead, we’ve had an increase of 43, bringing the total to 191.
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