On today’s International Women’s Day, Guido thought it was time to celebrate the first female leaders of significant political parties in the UK. The timeline of trailblazers is:

• Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, 1975
• Green Party, Jean Lambert, 1992
• Welsh Nationalists, Leanne Wood, 2012
• Scottish Nationalists, Nicola Sturgeon, 2014
• Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, 2015
• UKIP, Diane James, 2016
• Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, 2019
• [Labour Party, NA, NA]

Unless Sir Keir has a big announcement to make, sadly the Labour Party can’t yet properly participate in this list…