Baroness Flather, Conservative local politician and first Asian woman to be a life peer – obituary

Baroness Flather, who has died a week short of her 90th birthday, was Britain’s first Asian woman JP, local councillor, mayor and life peer, and a tireless campaigner for the rights of women and girls, for the South Asian community and for assisted dying.

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