Shirley Williams
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Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament, she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 t
Williams in 2014
Williams in 1984
Sitting beside Peter Ustinov during an episode of the late-night TV discussion programme After Dark, 1989
Social Democratic Party (UK)
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The Social Democratic Party was a centre to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. The party supported a mixed economy, electoral reform, European integration and a decentralised state whi
Shirley Williams
…a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and, at the time of her retirement from politics, was a Liberal Democrat. Williams was elected to the House of Commons for Hitchin in the…
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