The estate of the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, raised £84,600 for six charities when it went under the hammer.
EVEN though it is now two decades since the one and only Betty Boothroyd – our Betty – stepped down as Speaker of the House of Commons, there’s much still to learn from her indomitable spirit.
Former Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd has said she had never witnessed “such a collapse of the people’s trust in a government” in the almost half a century since she was elected as an MP.
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