'Glaring omissions' during Covid show cabinet needs more women, says MP

Caroline Nokes says first lockdown cut off access to childcare and many women unable to work

Boris Johnson needs to appoint more women to the cabinet after “glaring omissions” were made in areas affecting women during the first lockdown, the former Tory minister Caroline Nokes has said.

“The glaring omission when we went into the first lockdown this time last year was about women and childcare,” Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, has told Parliamentary Radio for International Women’s Day on Monday.

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