Mandu Reid
@ManduReid
Leader of the Women's Equality Party @WEP_UK. 1st person of colour to lead a UK political party. Usually reading something. Plenty of fire in my belly.
Big problems need bold collaboration and vision. @sianberry MP and I have released ‘All Our Children’ a new report calling for universal free early years provision. Childcare is essential infrastructure. It’s time we treated it that way. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… 1/2
🚨Let's treat childcare like infrastructure. In a new report written with the brilliant @ManduReid , I am calling for Universal Free Childcare to be moved forward as serious policy. This is a big vision and I hope others will come to share it. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
We loved having you! Big thanks to @ManduReid, @catherine_mayer and @sanditoksvig for sharing your radical optimism & exploring all we have in common - as the far right organises, progressives need to collaborate more than ever before #GPC24
HUGE congratulations from @sanditoksvig & me (& I'm sure from @ManduReid too!) to @sianberry & @TheGreenParty for a historic set of results. We were delighted to endorse your candidacy, Sian, & look forward to working on our joint policy platform with you theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
HUGE congrats from @sanditoksvig & me to @WEP_UK’s brilliant candidates @KayWesley, Harriet Williams, @hanna_000 & Nancy Cole @WEP_Wales You represented our policies & values & extended our reach, directly and through our joint policy platform with @TheGreenParty
ICYMI (easy given disproportionate coverage not only of old parties but the far right) @WEP_UK is running brilliant candidates & has a joint policy platform with @thegreenparty & @mandureid @sanditoksvig & I also back @sianberry for Brighton Pavilion theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I’m still on maternity leave but I took a keep in touch day last Friday to take my son to his first political meeting! Proud to join forces with @TheGreenParty & support @sianberry’s bid to replace @CarolineLucas as MP for Brighton Pavilion. More here ⬇️ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
For the final 2023 edition of The Backlash, I asked @helenlewis, @stellacreasy, @ManduReid, @DrPragyaAgarwal, @SEMcBain, @hazard_leah, Angela Saini, and Revital Madar four key questions on feminism and the struggle for gender equality /1
Today is #EqualPayDay - the day when, due to the gender pay gap in average wages, women effectively stop earning compared to men. However, our analysis shows that for many women of colour, this date falls considerably earlier in the year.
All I want for Christmas is for this Government AND the Opposition to stop stringing us all along with half measures and commit to properly investing in childcare and early years education - kids would benefit, parents would benefit, our entire economy and society would benefit.