Happy International Women’s Day. Every year, Guido reflects on the highly impactful strides made by our leading political parties in achieving female representation over the decades. Guido has this time round conducted in-depth analysis to establish the percentage of female prime ministers over the years who are left wing. Despite his best efforts, Guido couldn’t find a single one…

That means, naturally, that the Tories have secured all three female PMs. Not to be unfair to the other parties – almost all of them have elected a female leader by now, as you would hope. Here are the groundbreakers:

• 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

With Starmer clutching the reins tightly it looks like Guido’s analysis will be up to date for the foreseeable. Tut tut…