Women in charge: We just want right person for the job

We're not sexist here. We just want the best person for the job. If that happens to be a woman, of course we appoint her.

We have an amazing Queen, we've had the first and exceptionally strong female Prime Minister.

And – quite rightly – there is really nowhere women are excluded. Well, apart from the odd, heavily blinkered golf club.

It is hard to believe, then, that the issue still needs to be addressed in this progressive 21st century.

Except that at an extraordinary time when there are numerous and unexpected vacancies in our public life, so many of the candidates are indeed women, most of them toughies.

Give it six months and we might find that – Liberal Democrat Tim Farron apart – all the 'heavyweights' of political life will be women.

The next Prime Minster looks as though it will be either Theresa May or Andrea Leadsom. Shropshire's Suzanne Evans is favourite to take over from Nigel Farage, if she can overcome the small matter of a party suspension, and Labour's Angela Eagle is currently mid-coup against beleaguered Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.

You can add to the equation the Scottish Nationalist's Nicola Sturgeon, who met the Queen yesterday, as she continues to plan her country's exit from Her Majesty's United Kingdom.

Fighting that from within will be Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, a formidable but personable politician who has herself been touted as a possible leader for the party as a whole.

It is odd to think that it is more than 25 years since Margaret Thatcher dominated UK politics. Since then it has been largely male-dominated and now, at a time of momentous change in the country, it is perhaps appropriate that we have a fresh feel and a new tone.

It's not all done and dusted, of course.

The Home Secretary Theresa May is so far ahead in the Tory leadership race that the result may appear to be academic.

No, don't fall for that one. There is a curious way of electing leaders in the Conservative Party, with voting on Tuesdays and Thursdays until there are two, one of which will then be more widely chosen and presented as leader. And in this case, a house is thrown in with the job, as well as the title of Prime Minister.

It sounds like a school playground game. But you can't assume anything at this stage of their game. Andrea Leadsom, the energy minister, is pretty well unknown apart from by her Westminster colleagues. She is portrayed as absolutely qualifying for the job in every way. That's often a questionable claim when up against Mrs May's cool political experience over many years and at times of possible crisis – which we might well be facing – a safe and dependable pair of hands.

Across the Commons benches, Jeremy Corbyn increasingly looks old school. Grey and out of touch.

If he doesn't take the advice of other MPs and hundreds in his party who think he's not cutting the cloth, then he seems likely to be challenged – and again women are at the fore.

Shadow business secretary Angela Eagle needs to act decisively if she wants to take charge. She's been 'in out, in out' like a yo-yo decision so far and there is the uncertainty over whether Mr Corbyn will be allowed to battle it out in a UK ballot of members. If Mr Corbyn does win a fresh mandate, there are those who predict the party could split, so for unity's sake, Ms Eagle may be Labour's best hope. Meanwhile, Shropshire-born Suzanne Evans is attempting to manoeuvre her way in at Ukip. If her bid fails, enter the party's deputy chair Diane James.

There are days of change ahead, at any rate. And it will be fascinating.

Of course the sexual revolution can only go so far.

You know what would be the biggest "no, no" at this time of flux? Trying to get a woman in to manage England's blundering football team.

Then you'd really see the feathers fly!