Joan Lestor News Today

The Labour veteran entered the commons as one of only 21 women, then spent years fighting for a seat at the table. She discusses sexism, backlash and power as she prepares to leave parliament

One of the most influential postwar Conservative chancellors seen as the main architect of Thatcher’s radical economic reforms

At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity

In August 1961, 22-year-old Valerie Storie and her boyfriend 36-year-old Michael Gregsten were the victims of James Hanratty in the notorious A6 Murder.

Labour MP and minister under Harold Wilson who went on to chair the Anti-Apartheid Movement for two decades

Lord Bob Hughes, 90, who died on Friday spent some time in South Africa in his formative years. Christabel Gurney writes that his experience in South Africa left him with an unshakeable hatred of racism and colonialism, which underlay the whole of his future political career.