International Women's Day

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:27 pm on 6 March 2003.

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Photo of Glenda Jackson Glenda Jackson Labour, Hampstead and Highgate 1:27, 6 March 2003

It is simply not enough for Parliament to look like this country; we must also listen to the country. Yesterday provided a marked example of not only Parliament's but the Government's failure to listen. A mass lobby of school children who deeply opposed war against Iraq took place. They were remarkably well informed and they did not simply treat the event as a day off school. They made a clear political comment. Until we begin to take such matters seriously, it does not matter how much we look like the country. If we do not listen to it, we take no step forward.