19 JANUARY 1924, Page 3

The eight women who were elected to Parliament last November

met at a dinner-party at Frascati's on the night of Thursday, the 10th. The subject discussed seems to have been whether the women M.P.'s should on the whole work together, across the usual party lines, or whether they should vote strictly with their respective parties. The sense of the diners seems to have been that, at any rate for the present, women should co-operate on subjects that specially interest them, such as housing, infant welfare, &c. This should be all to the good, but we expect that in the long run party ties will prove strong, and women will find themselves as definitely attached to one or other of the great parties as male M.P.'s.

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