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23 January 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:46am

Baroness Shirley Williams: the Liberal Democrat peer who defined British public life

From early protests in Africa to a minister in Harold Wilson’s cabinet – no one alive has done so much to shape British social democracy.

By Vince Cable

Surely Shirley: Baroness Williams in the House of Lords in 2002

Shirley Williams: the Biography
Mark Peel
Biteback, £25, 480pp

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