I’ve become a real believer in peerages ;from seeing the track record of all of the main parties, every party, has either not been supportive of women’s rights and/or actively working to undermine them. We have to rely on the unelected House of Lords to be the grown ups now, specifically because it is unelected and unworried about the popular vote. I feel in this volatile age politically that we’ll always need the peers to speak out against the excesses when Ministers and MPs become politically distant from equality, science, reality, rationality and normal standards of medical and political ethics and human rights. I am delighted to have Sharron Davies as part of that she is a fantastic brain and public communicator