The politician Milda Salna (1886-1970) was the only woman whose candidature was put forward for the position of Minister of Welfare in 1925. The other female politician, Berta Pipia (1883-1942), is the only woman who became a Member of Parliament under the flexib...
In his 1000-word statement, the ex-prime minister claimed the committee "have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons". "They know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I...
What needs to be emphasised is that it is not just the privatisation of the GIB that is the problem, but even more the type of privatisation that now appears to be under way. Ex-Tory Minister Lord Barker has talked of asset stripping. It certainly seems to me that the GIB is at real...
In his 1000-word statement, the ex-prime minister claimed the committee "have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons". "They know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I...