Harman’s office Thatcher U-turn
September 16, 2009 by David Torrance
History repeats itself. BBC Online reports that Harriet Harman’s officials have been forced to change a government fact sheet celebrating ‘women in power’ because it did not name Margaret Thatcher.
Something similar happened back in July 1978, before Mrs Thatcher had even become Prime Minister. A Labour peer called Lady Birk, the then environment minister, had organised an exhibition in Westminster Hall to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the equal voting rights for women. George Younger, the Tory MP for Ayr and not yet Scottish Secretary, wrote to object that a picture of the Conservative Leader was ‘tucked away as though she was nobody’. The exhibition was hastily altered and George forwarded Lady Birk’s response to Mrs Thatcher. ‘I can only say “Well done!”’, she replied. ‘Very well done!’
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