[9] Regardless of their other personal political views, the MPU welcomed members who shared its core value: for women to obtain the same rights to vote as men.

[10] The MPU and the Men's League for Women's Suffrage held a joint meeting in Hyde Park on 17 July 1910, to support the Conciliation Bill.

[10] On 17 October 1910, Mr. Victor Duval, secretary of the MPU, was arrested for grasping Mr. Lloyd George's coat as he entered the City Temple to give a speech and criticised him for opposing the Women's Bill.

Captain Charles Melvill Gonne, a 48-year-old MPU member, intervened when a woman was being forcibly arrested by police and stated, 'You may take me, but you shall not take her.'

[5] At a Limehouse meeting, an MPU member climbed a pillar to reveal a suffragette flag above the heads of two Cabinet Ministers.