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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 Liberal Democrat leader in the Lords.
Warm-hearted, principled, impulsive, dishevelled and infuriatingly unpunctual, Shirley Williams had great electoral appeal, yet never quite fulfilled her promise. ....

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Roseanna Cunningham's historic 1995 Perth & Kinross SNP by-election victory recalled by key political players


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Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham’s decision not to seek nomination as an SNP candidate for the 2021 Scottish Parliament elections has cast political minds back to her historic victory in a Westminster by-election 26 years ago.
On May 25, 1995, in a by-election called following the death of sitting Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Ms Cunningham was first elected to represent the Perth and Kinross constituency where she turned a 2094 Conservative majority into a 7311 majority for the SNP.
Her win was significant as the area had been staunchly Tory for most years since the 1920s. ....

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