There are days in politics that remind you why you got into it in the first place, and days that make you wonder why you bother. At Sir Keir Starmer's final Prime Minister's Questions, the House of Commons gave us the first kind of day. As a Labour councillor, an immigrant woman of colour sitting in opposition on my own council, I want to tell you why it mattered. Watching PMQs is rarely a lesson in grace. It is usually a lesson in performance: point-scoring dressed up as scrutiny, jeers...

It was a measure of just how important an event this was, that many of us found ourselves braving the hottest day on record to attend the launch of the Red cross UK’s report: Designing for health equity Hosted by Baroness Nargund (who has spent decades working on issues of health equity) we also heard from the Red cross’ Executive director Lisa Hollins , Sharon Hodgson MP, and the inspirational Sir Michael Marmot. Designing for heath equity highlights the incredible and wide reaching impact...

Lisa Raftery is a charity sector funder and co-organiser of the Cross-Sector Taskforce on Online Misogyny and Men’s Mental Health. She is an FWN mentee (Cohort 10) and former Co-Vice Chair of the FWN Executive Committee. In February, the Misogyny Policy Project, working alongside Fabian Women, Male Allies UK, Jess Asato MP and Alistair Strathern MP, hosted a roundtable and reception in Parliament to launch the Cross-Sector Taskforce on Online Misogyny and Men’s Mental Health. The initiative...