article_snippet.sent: Mrs James - who was the Ukip candidate in the Eastleigh by-election and currently represents the south east of England in the European Parliament.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs James - who is widely considered to be Ukip leader Nigel Farage successor as the leader of Ukip .
article_snippet.sent: Patrick O’Flynn, who is also the party economics spokesman, said Ukip needs to ‘work harder’ as it is
article_snippet.sent: ‘policies for women’ alongside the Ukip deputy chairman Suzanne Evans and Mrs James, Mr O’Flynn was forced to defend ‘policies for women’ alongside the Ukip deputy chairman Suzanne Evans and Mrs James,
article_snippet.sent: blokeish’ image under Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
article_snippet.sent: the party used The event to confirm a raft of policies, including removing VAT from sanitary products, which the party have dubbed a ‘tampon tax’.
article_snippet.sent: the party also said the party would give ‘absolute, full and unconditional’ support for current maternity and paternity leave laws, as well as making sure maternity wards are ‘properly resourced’.
article_snippet.sent: Ms James said the party would tackle the problem of female genital mutilation (FGM), which Ms James warned is ‘accepted cultural practice’ for some of ‘our ethnic compatriots’.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Evans, who is writing the party’s election manifesto, blamed the gap in support for Ukip between men and women on ‘
article_snippet.sent: There is this myth us will scrap maternity leave, that us hate women, that us don't do anything for women - I think
article_snippet.sent: Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom was forced out of the party in September 2013 after branding women who do not clean behind the fridge as ‘sluts’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage, who was absent from the women’s event, has previously been criticised for controversial remarks about breast-feeding and whether women are less valuable to employers after women have been on maternity leave.
article_snippet.sent: In a 2010 interview, the party leader who has often been photographed smoking cigarettes and drinking pints of beer, also boasted: ‘I’ve got so many women pregnant over the years.