"We meet on what neither of us knows will be the eve of the announcement of a snap general election. She decided, year…"

"There’s nobody there when you go home, which is the experience of everybody who is widowed,” she says. “It’s there no…"

"My immediate response was that we must make sure that there’s no pressure on him to go – we must protect him, shield …"

"I knew that most of my shadow cabinet colleagues didn’t support me at all, and probably most of the PLP [parliamentar…"

"I remember one of my north‑east colleagues saying firmly in the tearoom one afternoon that there wasn’t a woman in th…"

"I don’t remember minding. I remember thinking it was all a bit sad that those were his views. I probably thought it w…"

"He said to me: ‘You don’t do intimidation, do you, Margaret?’ And I hadn’t thought about it – haven’t thought about i…"

"I was an engineering apprentice when there were 20 of us [women] out of 2,000 – and I was the only woman on my course…"

"Just because you get married doesn’t mean you don’t need to work."

"I remember when I was at college, at some do or another, people were passing round the bottle and I was – like everyo…"