IT’S good to have more women in the Cabinet.

Getting more women into politics is something I believe in. Except that, unfortunately, for all the talk around David Cameron’s ‘reshuffle for women’, the sad truth is his actions on women are just another broken promise.

In 2010, David Cameron said that by the end of this Parliament, a third of all of his ministers and cabinet would be women. In itself, that’s a humble target, we are after all a half of the population.

Nevertheless, it was a welcome step forward and proof that all parties were committed to righting this situation.

This reshuffle leaves him 12 ministers short, which is very wide of the mark and it’s another broken promise to women.

Let me rehearse them so I can keep count: child benefit would remain universal, this was meanstested, hitting women the hardest; ‘no plans to raise VAT’, it went up to 20 per cent hitting women the hardest; a long term economic plan that became a long queue at the food bank, hitting single parents, the majority women, the hardest.

I’ve heard hundreds more failings from men and women alike while talking to residents of Frodsham and Helsby, Hartford and Weaverham, Northwich and Runcorn.

But unless and until the government next year is a Labour one, 40 per cent of our candidates are women as we strive for 50 per cent.

A broken promise is all women everywhere will have to celebrate.

Julia Tickridge, Labour Candidate Weaver Vale