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Time to write women back into parliamentary history – Rachel Reeves

Written By Unknown on Sunday, November 27, 2016 | 9:37 AM

Former frontbencher has written book about Alice Bacon, Labour MP who helped transform education in postwar Britain

Women MPs are too often written out of political history, according to Rachel Reeves, the former Labour frontbencher, who has written a new biography of the pioneering parliamentarian Alice Bacon.

Reeves, a former shadow work and pensions secretary, said the book was her contribution to redressing the balance, after she followed in the footsteps of Bacon in 2010 to become the second female MP elected to a seat in Leeds.

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