Senior female MPs have called for an urgent meeting with Theresa May, during which they intend to urge her to lay the groundwork for an abortion referendum in Northern Ireland.
Leading Conservatives have asked for the meeting in the wake of the landslide result in Ireland last week, which saw 66 percent of the population back calls for the procedure to be legalised.
The female MPs intend to ratchet up pressure on Mrs May to initiate a similar poll in Northern Ireland, which is now the only place in the British Isles where abortion is mostly outlawed.
It comes amid growing pressure on Mrs May to live up to her credentials as a feminist, after she refused to act on cross-party calls to bring Northern...