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# Birmingham MPs sign letter questioning male-dominated Brexit negotiating team
- URL: https://www.birminghameastside.co.uk/birmingham-mps-sign-letter-questioning-male-dominated-brexit-negotiating-team/
- Published: 2017-07-19T20:55:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T10:07:18.000Z
- Description: Two Birmingham MPs have joined more than 50 of their colleagues in calling for Theresa May to review the lack of women on the UK’s Brexit negotiating team.
- Author: Birmingham Eastside
- Tags: News, Politics, #Migrated-1786701253228, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-14 09:54

Two Birmingham MPs have joined more than 50 of their colleagues in calling for Theresa May to review the lack of women on the UK’s Brexit negotiating team.

![Shabana Mahmood and Jess Phillips](http://birminghameastside.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/mahmoodphillips.jpg)

Shabana Mahmood and Jess Phillips

A letter to the Prime Minister has been signed by 57 MPs, including Shabana Mahmood and Jess Phillips.

In it they question why just 11% of the negotiating team are female.

The letter says: “Brexit negotiations will need women’s voices, on mainstream issues like the economy as well as on directly addressing, for example, how we maintain workplace rights - much of which are underpinned by EU legislation.

“A watering down of workers’ rights would impact women the most, from maternity leave to discrimination in the workplace.”

https://twitter.com/SeemaMalhotra1/status/887371683690053632

The group of female MPs have called for the Prime Minister to review the gender balance of the negotiating team as a matter of urgency, warning that Brexit was in danger of “becoming just another job for the boys”.

The letter continues: “We are sure that you agree on the importance of visibly engaging women in key discussions about our country’s future.”