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27 April 2011

“Calm down, dear!”

What Cameron’s gibe tells us about the Tories’ “blind spot” on women.

By Sophie Elmhirst

Winnergate (the near-universal media term for David Cameron’s “Calm down, dear!” to Angela Eagle during PMQs) is unfortunately not a lone incidence of patronising sexism on the part of the Prime Minister.

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