Womens Equality Party Leader Sophie Walker
The U.K. political system is undergoing something of a transformation. It’s all thanks to the Women’s Equality Party, formed this spring and already considered the fastest growing political party in the U.K. The nation’s first feminist political party, WEP is campaigning with just six goals on its agenda: equal pay, equal representation in business and politics, equal representation in education, equal treatment of women in the media, equal parenting rights, and an end to violence against women. Any questions?
Former Reuters journalist Sophie Walker has been leading WEP since July. Though the party didn’t present any candidates in this year’s elections — it was just weeks old at the time — it’s drumming up some major support ahead of 2020 and could lure existing members of parliament (MPs) from their current parties before the next election.