It might have been her intention to try and attach it to the bridle of the kings horse, rather than to actually bring the horse down. The scarf is owned today by a collector, who let me see a telegram she has never shown publicly before sent from Queen Alexandra to the injured jockey. It says Queen Alexandra was very sorry indeed to hear of your sad accident caused by the abominable conduct of a brutal, lunatic woman. This is really Strong Language a brutal, lunatic woman . Well, people had mixed feelings about the militant suffragettes. Half of them thought they were crazy, and half often thought that was the only way, by destroying property, that they would actually achieve the vote. As mps, women continued campaigning for equal rights. Edith summerskill, on the left, was first elected in 1938. And her daughter, shirley, followed her into the commons in 1964. Women who got to anywhere in their career are very conscious, and should be, of the women who went before and paved the way an
LONDON: Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is set for its biggest ever victory in next month’s general election, winning by a larger margin than in 1997 under former prime minister.
Ahead of the UK General Elections 2024 on July 4, opinion pollsters YouGov have predicted a landslide victory for Britain s main opposition - the Labour Party; the Conservatives led by now UK PM Rishi Sunak are expected to be reduced to 140 seats.
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