Barbara Castle
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Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, Baroness Castle was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female
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Castle as Minister for Overseas Development meeting John Tembo, Malawi Minister of Finance, 1965
Castle authorised the construction of the Humber Bridge (pictured in 1980, prior to completion)
James Callaghan removed Castle from his Cabinet
First Secretary of State
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First Secretary of State is an office that is sometimes held by a minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom held by the most senior secretary of state. The office is not always in
Barbara Castle
…close political partnership with Prime Minister Harold Wilson and held several roles in the Cabinet. She was the first woman to have held the office of First Secretary of State. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Castle worked as a journalist for both Tribune and the Daily Mirror, before being elected to Parliament as MP…
Louise Haigh Cabinet Office Portrait 2026
Rab Butler in 1963
George Brown 1967
Michael Stewart