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Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (born 1910)

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Barbara Castle

British politician (1910–2002)

Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, Baroness Castle, was a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1979, making her one of the longest-serving female MPs in British history. Regarded as one of the most significant Labour Party…
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First Secretary of State

Senior ministerial office of the United Kingdom

First Secretary of State is an office that is sometimes held by a minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The office indicates seniority, including over all other secretaries of state. The office is not always in use, so there have sometimes been extended…
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