Harriet Harman on how Parliament has changed over four decades
It is more in touch with voters, says the longest-serving female MP—but there is more work to do
SO MUCH HAS changed since that day in October 1982 when the huge oak doors of Britain’s House of Commons swung open and I walked into a packed chamber to swear my oath of allegiance to the Queen. I felt completely out of place, dressed in my red velvet maternity dress, as I took my seat among a sea of men in grey suits. And indeed I was.
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