Baroness Boothroyd, OM, indomitable MP who won all-round respect and admiration as the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons – obituary

She possessed what one journalist called ‘the glamour of a diva, the bearing of a kindergarten head and the lip of a barmaid’

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