Shirley Williams, Labour Cabinet minister who left her party to help form the SDP – obituary
Shirley Williams, Labour Cabinet minister who left her party to help form the SDP – obituary Conservatives blamed her for killing off grammar schools when at Education, but she was not the prime mover of a policy she warmly embraced 12 April 2021 • 4:32pm Baroness Williams of Crosby (here as Shirley Williams in 1981): the SDP’s ‘collective leadership’ valued her popularity, warmth, intellect and enthusiasm Baroness Williams of Crosby, who has died aged 90, was a controversial Education Secretary and one of the “Gang of Four” who left Labour to found the SDP, eventually becoming ...
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