Women Just Aren't in Love with Boy Tony Any More

Evening Standard - London (May 12, 2004)

Author: Allison Pearson

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I CAN hardly look at him any more. When I see him now, I have to turn away." A betrayed woman talking about a man who let her down. The woman is a lifelong Labour voter and the bloke in question is Tony Blair.

Why have women fallen out of love with Blair? As is the way with spurned men, the Prime Minister could claim to be bewildered: "Look at all that I've done for you, woman, and this is how you treat me!"

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Women Just Aren't in Love with Boy Tony Any More

The puzzle is that New Labour has done far more for women than any previous government.

Paid maternity leave has increased, the right of mothers and carers of the elderly to request flexible working has already eased the lives of thousands and is helping to change the culture of work itself.

Women who take time off to bring up their fami...

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