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Shirley Williams Quotes

1930–2021 England

Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (née Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 11 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979.

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There can be a Fascism of the Left as well as Fascism of the Right.

We are seeing the increase of unemployment throughout the industrial world, and it is a problem for which we still have no real answer.

We are going to fight to save the party and by God we think we can. We are going to start fighting for a Labour Party worthy of the name.

Speech to a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (1980)

I continue to believe that the best opportunity we have to advance our socialist objectives lies in forging the closest possible links with our fellow socialists and trade unions across the Channel.

David has had the idea that the voters to try and win are defecting Tories... I personally have always held that we must try to replace the Labour Party.

Attribution

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