Women's Equality Party

Women's Equality Party
Abbreviation	WE WEP
Leader	Mandu Reid
Founders	Sandi Toksvig Catherine Mayer
Founded	2 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-02)
Headquarters	Kemp House 152–160 City Road London EC1V 2NX[1]
Membership (September 2020)	30,000[2]
Ideology	Feminism
Colours	Purple   Green WSPU colours
House of Commons	Parliament dissolved
House of Lords	0 / 798
Local government	1 / 21,259
Website
www.womensequality.org.uk
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The Women's Equality Party (WEP) is a feminist political party set up in the United Kingdom in 2015. The idea was conceived by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig at the Women of the World Festival, when they concluded that there was a need for a party to campaign for gender equality to the benefit of all. The launch meeting was on 28 March 2015 under the title "The Women's Equality Party needs you. But probably not as much as you need the Women's Equality Party". The party's full policy was launched by its then-leader Sophie Walker at Conway Hall on 20 October 2015. In January 2020, Mandu Reid took over as party leader.

The party has one principal authority councillor on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, elected in 2024.^[3] It also has two seats on Congleton Town Council where Kay Wesley serves as the party's first Town Mayor,^[4] and a seat on Stinsford Parish Council.^[5]