2011/06/09/anniversary-of-appointment-first-woman-cabinet-minister-margaret-bondfield-labour-in-1929-interview-with-bbc-local-radio/ London MEP European Parliament Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ 2011/06/09/anniversary-of-appointment-first-woman-cabinet-minister-margaret-bondfield-labour-in-1929-interview-with-bbc-local-radio/#comment-4651 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:23:05 +0000 ?p=14754#comment-4651 I enjoyed Mary’s broadcast but it was a little surprising that in a discussion of the progress of women politicians there was no mention of Margaret Thatcher and all the emphasis was on women in the Labour Party.
Before the creation of the Labour Party, the Conservatives elected the first Jewish party leader and the first Irish party leader but whatever ones views on Margaret Thatcher her appointment by the Tories was very significant and an example which all these decades later has still be copied by Labour.

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