The Pitman to Parliament story is part of the foundation history of the Labour Party and its first leader Keir Hardie was a key example of the process.
The first working class MPs elected to Parliament in 1874 Thomas Burt and Alexander McDonald were pitmen and stood on a Lib-Lab ticket.
The election of a plumber Hannah Spencer as MP for Gorton and Denton on 26th February suggests a twist to the story ironically or arguably fittingly in the week of the 125th anniversary of the formation of the Labour Representation Committee in London on 26th and 27th February 1900. It became the Labour Party in 1906 when 29 Labour MPs were elected at a General Election.
Labour did not come fully formed. There was a process of working out how best working people could be represented in politics and Hannah Spencer may be about to write a new chapter….
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Love this.
Sharing with a friend who is ticking off local blue plaques and works for the Co-op Foundation, as well as one who ,till recently, used to live in Jesnond.