The Women’s Equality Party is rushed off its feet. When I meet the party’s leader, journalist and campaigner Sophie Walker, for a chat, I’m given 18 minutes to speak with her – which, according to my dictaphone recording, actually pans out as more like 14.
Walker meets me fresh from the release of a statement on Sadiq Khan’s election as Labour’s mayoral candidate for London, which notes: “It is disappointing that the Labour party has nominated a man to the post”. The statement would be echoed by another on Saturday, saying roughly the same thing about Jeremy Corbyn’s appointment as Labour leader. The tone of these releases mirrors the party’s view of its role in politics: to hammer home the same messages on gender equality again and again, until something actually changes. “We don’t care how equality is achieved,” Walker says at two different points in our conversation. “We just want it to happen.”
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