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To increase my chances of getting any kind of a response from the chancellor, who is presumably perpetually very busy, I did three things at once: I sent a letter to my local MP asking for his support and advice, I contacted the chancellor directly asking if he would change our taxation policy on period products, and I promoted an online petition via social media to gather as many signatures as possible. This all paid off! I got responses from both my local MP and the chancellor’s office (we’ll talk about this in Step Three).

Once we hit 10,000

signatures on the

petition, politicians

started to take

notice of us.

The first to contact

change.org to support our petition was

the amazing Stella Creasy MP, and others soon followed, including the badass Paula Sherriff MP. I was lucky enough to be able to meet with both

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