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David Cameron Promoted Women In Reshuffle 'For Show', Most Voters Believe

Think Cameron Promoted Women For Show? You're Not Alone...
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The majority of people think David Cameron promoted women in his ministerial reshuffle for "presentational reasons", with less than a quarter believing they earned the positions on merit, a poll has found.

The ComRes survey for the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror found 24% believed Mr Cameron promotes women "purely on merit", with 41% disagreeing.

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Most people think Cameron promoted women for show, the poll suggests

Some 56% believed the prime minister gives promotions to female ministers "mainly for presentational reasons", with 18% disagreeing.

Overall just one in five of those surveyed thought the reshuffle had improved their view of the Conservative Party, with 54% disagreeing.

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Labour had a three-point lead over the Tories, up one point from last month, with Ed Miliband's party unchanged on 34%, the Conservatives down one point on 31%, Ukip down one on 17% and the Liberal Democrats up two points to 9%.

But Mr Miliband's personal woes in the polls continued, with just 21% of voters thinking he was likely to be prime minister after the general election and 44% disagreeing that he was likely to be in No 10 after the contest next May.

ComRes interviewed 2,054 adults online between July 16 and 18. Data were weighted to be demographically representative of all GB adults and also by past vote recall.

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Back in 2011, Cameron had five women as full cabinet members, so this increase isn't breaking any new ground. (credit:BBC)
The reshuffle only added two extra women...(02 of06)
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There were 20 female Tory ministers in government before the reshuffle, and now there are 22.
Cameron couldn't decide on his sixth female cabinet member(03 of06)
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Baroness Tina Stowell, the government's new leader in the House of Lords, was briefly a full-cabinet member before being listed as "attending cabinet", meaning that she would be paid £22,147 less than the man who did the job before her, Jonathan Hill. The Tories rushed to say they'd make up the difference from their own funds.
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The French government's cabinet, presided over by prime minister Manuel Valls, has eight women (47%) out of the seventeen members. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel's German government has 6 women out of the 16 members, at 37.5%.
It's not just our neighbours who're doing better(05 of06)
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And Cameron promised to pick many more women(06 of06)
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