An exciting line up of female political voices, including Kate Maltby and Ayesha Hazarika, chaired by Jackie Ashley, discuss the #MeToo movement and women in Westminster.

Kate Maltby is a critic, columnist and scholar, writing a regular column for the Financial Times on the relationship between contemporary politics and intellectual culture. She has also written for The Spectator, The Telegraph, Guardian, The Times, and the New Statesman.

Ayesha Hazarika is a former Special Adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband and is now a political commentator and stand-up comedian.

Prior to becoming President of Lucy Cavendish College in September 2015, Jackie Ashley worked for more than 30 years at Westminster as a prominent political journalist and broadcaster. She has had a rich and varied working life, including such roles as Producer and Newsreader on Newsnight, Political Correspondent with ITN, Channel 4 politics producer, Presenter of several political programmes on BBC2 and ITV and Political Editor at the New Statesman. In her previous role – as a Columnist and Political Interviewer at The Guardian – Jackie has covered Labour, Conservative and Coalition politics, women’s rights, the media and public services, with a particular focus on health. She has also closely followed the weekly political argument as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster.