Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise MenschI have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Louise MenschI'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
Louise Mensch