Women’s Equality party founders urge members to call time after 10 years

Catherine Mayer, co-founder and president of the Women’s Equality party, in May 2019. Photograph: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard/Getty Images

The leader and co-founders of the Women’s Equality party (WE) will recommend that members vote to close it down at a special meeting called for next month.

Financial challenges and a changed political and media landscape mean that, after a decade of activism, the party is no longer the most effective way to campaign for women’s rights, said its leader, Mandu Reid.