Your mother should know... better

 
11 April 2013

Daily Telegraph blogger Dan Hodges, a tribal Labour supporter, asked yesterday whether his fellow Labour supporters “have the basic good grace and wisdom to set aside — for a short time — our political differences and acknowledge, however hard it may be, the achievements of the first woman to hold the highest office in our land? For all our sakes, I hope we do.”

Several Labour MPs did exactly that in their tributes to Lady Thatcher in the Commons , in particular Gerald Kaufman, Frank Field and Barry Sheerman. And Labour leader Ed Miliband, thought Hodges, delivered “a fitting, and moving, eulogy”. However, Hodges’s message fell on deaf ears when it came to his own mother, Glenda Jackson, MP for Hampstead, who denied that Thatcher was even a woman.

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