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Jo Swinson answers your questions, 2-3pm today

By | Thu 3rd October 2013 - 12:09 pm

Jo Swinson, MP for East Dunbartonshire and a minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, is taking part in a live Q&A this afternoon from 2-3pm over at the Guardian.

Here’s how the site introduces Jo:

When she took her seat in parliament in 2005, Jo Swinson was the first MP to have been born in the 1980s. In 2012 she became a government minister after the Lib Dems formed a coalition with the Conservative party.

As minister for women and equalities, Swinson has made it her mission to bring about a change in culture around women in the workplace. As a backbench MP she set up the all-party parliamentary group on body image and this is something she has continued to campaign on.

“The piece of legislation that I’m so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave,” she told the Guardian in May. “Changing that legislation is a really good example of how we’re not going to change culture overnight, but how the government has a role to make sure the structures in place reflect modern living.”

Jo’s ministerial brief covers some fascinating and important areas, so why not head over and post a question or follow the Q&A here?

* Nick Thornsby is a day editor at Lib Dem Voice.

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