When you ask politicians publicly whether they think the House of Commons should be more diverse, there is increasing acceptance of that claim. What I was querying, if I understood you correctly, is that often that doesn't translate into the efforts within political parties that would be necessary to actually increase women's participation throughout the party.
It's very easy to stand up and say we want more women and it's very easy to put on training for women, but really it's about whether political parties fundamentally address the barriers to women's political participation.
It's very important for political parties to engage in recruitment rhetoric and recruitment drives, but they need to change their parties. In very similar ways to what Bill Cross was saying in his opening statement, parties need to change how women participate within the political parties so that they are ready and able to participate when a selection comes up.