Job-sharing for MPs would help to ensure that boundary changes do not lead to a reduction in female MPs and would help to increase the number of disabled MPs (‘We are the vicar’, 3 December).
John McDonnell, before he became shadow chancellor, presented a bill to the Commons in support of job-sharing for MPs. The solution to Rachel Reeves’ concern about how voting would work is for each job-share MP to have half a vote. When they agree, either MP could cast the vote. When they disagree, both could vote. Disputes between job-share MPs over votes are likely to be rare.
We badly need to modernise the working conditions in the Commons and job-sharing provides a much-needed way to bring politics into the 21st century.
Deborah King
Disability Politics UK
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