"In 2014 David Cameron, the prime minster, made his final cabinet reshuffle before the May 2015 general election and appointed several women to senior posts to fulfil his promise that a third of the top jobs would be occupied by women at the end of the parliament. This proportion has been met and sustained following the Tories' victory at the general election in May. Women are still unrepresented in Mr Cameron's cabinet relative to society as a whole (not that much of a fuss has been raised).
Thanks to Mr Corbyn's late additions, his cabinet is more representative of the country than Mr Cameron's. But one might question the need for a secretary of state for voter registration in the front-bench team, or whether a separate chief whip for the House of Lords is required."
Cameron waited until 2014 to bring the proportion of women in his cabinet up to 30%. Corbyn's cabinet is more representative of the country than Mr. Cameron's. That was from the Economist, not known to support Corbyn.
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So much seems to have happened in just one week since Jeremy Corbyn was elected to the labour leadership; some good, some bad and some just plain ridiculous.
Being even handed I thought this thread should have a Conservative point of view to start the discussion of what comes next.
Just to give a flavour Andrew Gimson on the Conservative Home website, although he obviously does not agree with the Corbyn view of politics he starts by saying "How pinched and petty-minded is the attitude that underlies so much of the comment ..."
Remembering this is a man whose views are diametrically opposed to JC's - it is well worth a read while we look forward (or dread 
) the up coming conference to see why he believes "this approach is blinkered" when talking about the commentary on the man who having stood for the leadership of his party and "won it by inspiring a quarter of a million people to vote for him, and came to the Dispatch Box to convey something of their views."
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