"I celebrated this by going to the PLP meeting [and saying], "I'd like to congratulate the parliamentary party on this real step forward for proper recognition of women in politics. And nobody's willy has dropped off.""
— Neil Kinnock

January 1, 1970

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At the 1989 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election, 4 women had been chosen for the first time (a rule change meant voting for 3 women was compulsory). Labour's Shadow Cabinet elections were abolished in 2011. At the 1987 general election a record 41 women (21 Labour) had been elected (6.3% of the 650 total).