
First woman Commons Speaker and former West Bromwich MP Betty Boothroyd dies
Betty Boothroyd, who made political history in 1993 when she became the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons, has died aged 93. Boothroyd, a working-class northerner from Yorkshire, had a remarkable and varied career as a Tiller Girls dancer, an MP for West Bromwich and serving as a baroness in the House of…