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The New Right-Wing Idol: Working Moms

MOTHER LOVE

In the bloody U.K. Cabinet shakeup, a female minister’s promotion came with the prefix ‘working mother.’ Why are conservatives on both sides of the pond keen to court this constituency?

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The blood on the floor is especially vivid in UK politics right now, spattered over the bodies of the dispatched “male, pale, and stale” ministers suddenly ejected from David Cameron’s Cabinet.

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In their place comes what Britain’s Conservative Party hopes will benefit its electoral chances: a slight increase in the number...

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