As tributes are paid to Tessa Jowell I can't help thinking of some of the other great women in the Labour Party-some living, some dead who could have been great leaders. Barbara Castle, Mo Mowlam, Harriet Harman and I'm sure there are more. So I wonder why these women never made it. Is it in-built sexism? The Conservatives of course have had 2 women leaders, but both can be said to be women who were groomed and supported by men. So is it perhaps that Labour women are much more outspoken, do not always toe the party line, and will not be puppets?
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