article_snippet.sent: Esther McVey Esther McVey has been one of the Labour party
article_snippet.sent: ’ Miss McVey, who was given a job in Cabinet by David Cameron last July, said that Esther McVey is one of a number of women sat around the table who knows how to have Esther McVey voice heard and shows the Labour party is not solely made up of women in ‘twin-sets and pearls’.
article_snippet.sent: Esther McVey also revealed how the network of female Tory ministers, including Home Secretary Theresa May, support each other with text messages, phone calls and by taking each other out for drinks.
article_snippet.sent: I think this myth that they’re for women is only a myth and the reality is the campaign they have run against Miss McVey
article_snippet.sent: ’ Miss McVey, who was one of only five ministers to make it onto the front page of the Conservative manifesto alongside Mr Cameron, hit back at suggestions she was only there as a ‘token woman’.
article_snippet.sent: As another woman hosted a women business leaders event in another woman constituency yesterday alongside Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers and Lords Leader Baroness Stowell, Miss McVey Miss McVey talked about the support Miss McVey has received from other women in the Cabinet behind the scenes.
article_snippet.sent: Miss McVey also denied that the Tory party is predominantly made up of women in twin-sets and pearls.
article_snippet.sent: For Miss McVey I have never have thought that because the Tory women I knew were not like that,’ Miss McVey said.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The Tory women in this room are just people running a business, looking after a family, there is not anybody here in twin-set and pearls, The Tory women in this room are just regular people who understand you cannot spend what you have not got.
article_snippet.sent: Miss McVey Miss McVey was flanked by Ms Villiers and and felow Tory Grant Shapps on the campaign trail yesterday .
article_snippet.sent: Asked if it was easy being only one of only a few women in the Cabinet, Miss McVey said: ‘You have got to look at it was easy from both sides of the table, we might be in lesser numbers but sometimes that can make you more visible and your points more pertinent too.
article_snippet.sent: Miss McVey Miss McVey said that the female Tory ministers exchange text messages, phone calls and go out for drinks together.
article_snippet.sent: Miss McVey said that Theresa was pleased to see Nicola Sturgeon, Natalie Bennett and Leanne Wood representing Nicola Sturgeon, Natalie Bennett and Leanne Wood parties in the televised leaders debates even though Theresa disagrees with Natalie Bennett and Leanne Wood politically.