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Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?

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Calling · 06/07/2024 11:48

Annelise Dodds was re-elected as MP in a safe seat and I had thought that she would be Minister for Women or similar. I can't find any reference to her as chair of the Labour Party or as Minister and I checked the Labour Party website etc.
I spotted her in a red dress* at the place outside where MPs were waiting to be called to see Starmer, having been summoned, but it was confusing because she was not allowed to go forward for a while when others were (or simply was early and had to wait). She didn't seem very happy about that).

*That's how I noticed her.

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AlecTrevelyan006 · 06/07/2024 13:46

Starmer should give the job to Rosie Duffield

WarriorN · 06/07/2024 13:30

IMHO the title should be revised.

I sometimes wonder if "Women" should be attached to health. You'd still need some sort of equalities set up for everything else including women's pay etc, but it would help to centre the importance of women's health and the biological science behind it.

PeppercornMill · 06/07/2024 13:17

Surely Starmer will appoint a man to the position of Women and Equalities?

Perhaps give Eddie Izzard a peerage so that he can serve in cabinet?

Myalternate · 06/07/2024 12:57

Buffypaws · 06/07/2024 12:47

they don’t because that isn’t true

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Of course it’s not, I just thought I’d give them the opportunity to further prove their ignorance.

Rubidium · 06/07/2024 12:51

Women and Equalities is a ministerial brief, not a Secretary of State. They haven’t appointed the ministers yet. Anneliese Dodds is Labour Party Chair and probably has a seat at the cabinet table in that capacity without having a government department to run.

Buffypaws · 06/07/2024 12:47

Myalternate · 06/07/2024 12:43

Really? How do you know?

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they don’t because that isn’t true

Myalternate · 06/07/2024 12:43

Yentle · 06/07/2024 12:36

All the SEEN accounts are run by the same small handful of people, none are specialists in any of the SEEN variations.

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Really? How do you know?

Yentle · 06/07/2024 12:36

zibzibara · 06/07/2024 11:59

Are SEEN in Journalism actually journalists? That's the second glaring error from them in a week. Whoever runs that account has an abysmal attention to detail, anyway.

All the SEEN accounts are run by the same small handful of people, none are specialists in any of the SEEN variations.

magicmole · 06/07/2024 12:34

https://x.com/hzeffman/status/1809547665144737852

According to the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent: "Looks like Anneliese Dodds is attending cabinet as minister of state for development. That hasn’t been formally announced. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, had been shadowing that role. Dodds was Labour’s shadow women and equalities minister — no-one has got that post yet"

x.com

https://x.com/hzeffman/status/1809547665144737852

ScribblingPixie · 06/07/2024 12:32

She's not in the photo of the first cabinet meeting on Mail Online - all the ministers are numbered and listed, she's not there. But I can see her white sleeve in the photo - she's been cropped off.

OldCrone · 06/07/2024 12:18

zibzibara · 06/07/2024 11:59

Are SEEN in Journalism actually journalists? That's the second glaring error from them in a week. Whoever runs that account has an abysmal attention to detail, anyway.

What's the error? The first tweet posted by @WarriorN links to a bbc video of the first cabinet meeting where she's clearly seen, and the second one also shows her as part of the cabinet.

Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?
Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?
Shortshriftandlethal · 06/07/2024 12:01

I suspect that Starmer is uncertain how to proceed with this appointment.......He knows what an emotive issue this remains, and needs to get it 'right'...however he perceives that. I've been wondering whether they would remove the word 'Woman' and just have it as the 'Equalities' - but this would signal a further erosion of women's concerns and protections - and so I think it may well be a bit of a hot potato.

zibzibara · 06/07/2024 11:59

Are SEEN in Journalism actually journalists? That's the second glaring error from them in a week. Whoever runs that account has an abysmal attention to detail, anyway.

WarriorN · 06/07/2024 11:56

I saw this yesterday and was confused but encouraged- it seems she'd emailed before the election was called and SSAUK emailed back yesterday.

It appears SEEN in journalism incorrectly named her women and equalities minister, which they have now corrected.

x.com/safeschools_uk/status/1809349046751928651?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?
Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?
Anneliese Dodds: what has happened to her?