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LABOUR and Ukip’s most senior female figures engaged in a spat over their parties’ approach to women’s rights — with Harriet Harman being branded a “harpie” for suggesting Ukip was “Neanderthal.”
Ms Harman said 90 per cent of Ukip general election candidates and 81 per cent of its councillors were men, prominent figures were guilty of questioning women’s role in the workplace, it was allied with misogynistic politicians in Brussels and wanted to cut public services which are used more by women than men.
But Ukip deputy chair Suzanne Evans said: “If Ukip was sexist, I wouldn’t be deputy chairman and handed the huge responsibility of delivering the general election manifesto.”
