Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

Yes, that's Lesley Jackson.

She was a Labour councillor, for Rishton I think it was.

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

So she was a local councillor but not locally born and bred?

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

Thanks Lilly

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

Apparently inbetween working in various local mills, and before she was chosen to go to Russia in 1927, she worked in the offices of a local newspaper.

If such things still exist, the Observer might have an archive to check, because although she doesn't name them, I presume it's the Accrington Observer.

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

McKay Margaret

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/mar...sworth_clapham

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

Be interesting to know what the present day Labour Party leader would think of her views expressed here
Foreign Affairs: 18 Jul 1968: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)

Re: Margaret McKay M.P.
 

I doubt she would have been one of Blair's Babes.

:rolleyes:


I like the cut of her jib.

Hard working, principled, liked dressing up, lived in a tent, and an Ossy lass to boot.

Her biography was an amazing book, though the second half was very heavily political.