Barbara Castle Quotes

1910–2002

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT (née Betts, 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, until her record was surpassed in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester North in 1979, and later Greater Manchester West (European Parliament constituency) from 1984 to 1989.

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The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered.

Statement (1959)

This means a pension increase of 72p – a fair price for a bag of peanuts.

Speech to the Labour Party Conference (1999)

They lured us into the Market with the mirage of the market miracle.

Intrinsically the National Health Service is a church. It is the nearest thing to the embodiment of the Good Samaritan that we have in any respect of our public policy.

[W]e shall fight any legislation based on these proposals tooth and nail, line by line, and, however long it takes, we shall destroy the Bill.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Castle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.