{"id":3783,"date":"2019-06-26T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:08:27","slug":"mp-paula-to-help-menopause-move-up-the-parliamentary-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/?p=3783","title":{"rendered":"MP Paula to help menopause move up the parliamentary agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3784 \" src=\"http:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff-285x214.jpg 285w, https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sherriff.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>Di has been in Westminster meeting MP and women&#8217;s health champion Paula Sherriff.(pictured left with Di (centre) and campaigner Katie Taylor.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very encouraged that Paula will help us to move menopause up the parliamentary agenda. When we discussed symptoms Paula had her own menopause light bulb moment!&#8221; Di said later.<\/p>\n<p>Paula Sherriff has been Labour Member of Parliament for Dewsbury since gaining the seat from the Conservatives at the general election in May 2015, having been previously a councillor in Pontefract on Wakefield District Council.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016 it was officially acknowledged that the &#8220;Tampon Tax&#8221; would be abolished. Paula became the first backbench MP in Parliamentary history to have had an amendment to a Budget resolution successfully adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Labour Party commended her work on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Di has been in Westminster meeting MP and women&#8217;s health champion Paula Sherriff.  &#8220;I am very encouraged that Paula will help us to move menopause up the parliamentary agenda. When we discussed symptoms Paula had her own menopause light bulb moment!&#8221; Di said later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}