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Radio 4,7 mins

'Ask Her To Stand'

Woman's Hour

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It is 100 years since the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act allowed women over 21 to stand as an MP. Helen Pankhurst, the great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst on the campaign to get more women into Parliament.

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