Electing women could be the answer to rising populism and extremism, former U.K. Prime Minister John Major told a summit of young leaders at the Hague on Thursday. “Women think about politics in a different way – more pragmatic and more cautious,” he said at the One Young World conference in the Dutch city. The former Conservative leader, who served as prime minister from 1990 until May 1997, said he believes strong British women are at the front line of many important sectors within the U.K., calling the transformation a “revolution.” Major, who succeeded the U.K.’s first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, said his country is currently on the front lines of the “revolution” in female political leadership. “In my country, we have the Queen who is, self-evidently, a woman.