Women’s Suffrage Centenary Fund Debate

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Women’s Suffrage Centenary Fund

Lord Lexden Excerpts
Thursday 2nd November 2017

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Lexden Portrait Lord Lexden (Con)
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Will my noble friend agree—I think she will, in view of what she said—that it is entirely appropriate that the projected statue in Parliament Square should be of Dame Millicent Fawcett, leader of the law-abiding suffragists for over 50 years, a Liberal and then a Liberal Unionist, whose work helped to create a Commons majority for women’s suffrage in the 1890s?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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In view of what I have said, of course I agree with my noble friend. She played such an important part not only in history but in where we are today. When I look across this Chamber and the other place, I know I would not be here had it not been for her.