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Maureen Colquhoun, fearless campaigning Left-winger who was Britain’s first ‘out’ lesbian MP – obituary
Combative and voluble, in 1976 she left her husband for the woman with whom she spent the rest of her life, but lost her seat in 1979
3 February 2021 • 11:29am
Maureen Colquhoun (1977): she spoke out for an end to first-class rail travel, for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, and on behalf of British shoemakers, among many other issues
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Maureen Colquhoun, who has died aged 92, was a warm and tempestuous Labour Left-winger, an irrepressible enthusiast on a host of issues, who in 1976 became the first MP to “come out” as a lesbian.