Steve Richards' documentary about Labour, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician Shirley Williams. As a Labour MP, she became a cabinet minister under Wilson and Callaghan from 1974 to 1979. But she lost her seat in Hertfordshire in the election of 1979.
Abandoning the Labour Party to help found the new Social Democratic Party, Shirley Williams re-entered the Commons after winning the Crosby by-election in 1981, only to lose again to the Tories in 1983. She also lead the Liberal Democrat peers in the House of Lords.
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