Britain’s longest serving female MP was first elected to the Commons in 1974 and became the first woman to lead the Labour party in 1994
Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto/AllstarPhotograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto/AllstarMargaret Beckett, Britain’s first female foreign secretary and the first woman to lead the Labour party, is to retire at the next election after nearly four decades as MP for Derby South.
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