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Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC ( née Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party politicians, Castle developed a close ...
Sep 3, 2010 · Barbara Castle who was born 100 years ago on October 6th and who died in 2001, has soared in public opinion ever since she quit politics, propelled on the updraft of anti-new Labour sentiment and ...
Oct 17, 2021 · Barbara Castle chats to voters in Salford, February 1974 (Image: Mirrorpix). Steeped in politics from an early age, her father was a tax inspector and ardent Socialist, her mother a Labour councillor.
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Barbara Castle. Barbara Castle (1910-2002) was MP for Blackburn 1945-1979, and one of the most important Labour politicians of her era. She held various Cabinet positions during the 1960s, including Minister for Overseas Development and Minister of Transport. In 1968 while the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, she intervened ...
Apr 27, 2018 · Born in 1910, Barbara Castle was the youngest child in Labour family. She grew up in Bradford and went on to Oxford University. Political heroes: Hague on Pitt the Younger. Corbyn's political hero ...
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Oct 9, 2021 · Labour's Angela Rayner has promised to "always be outspoken" like Baroness Barbara Castle while unveiling a statue of the pioneering political firebrand. Lady Castle, who was an employment and ...
May 4, 2002 · Barbara Anne Castle, a onetime Labor cabinet minister and determined socialist whose radical, ill-timed attempt to tame Britain's mighty trade unions doomed her political career, died yesterday.
