Elizabeth Braddock

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Braddock, Elizabeth Margaret (Bessie) (1899 - 1970 )

Braddock was a secularist and Labour Member of Parliament.

Born in Liverpool, England, she was a city councillor from 1930 until 1961. She then became the first Labour and first female member of Parliament.

A right-winger, she was a caustic speaker and defender of working people's rights to better health and education service.

In 1920 she left the independent Labour Party to join the Communist Party, moving in 1924 back to the Labour Party.

In 1922 she married John Braddock, who also was active in Liverpool Labour politics.

They wrote The Braddocks (1962).

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