People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
The group For Our Future's Sake will tour key marginal constituencies to ensure first that young people register to vote then, second, that they… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.' — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father's ambition to see me in a… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
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