In Conversation with Margaret Hodge
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"A rattling good read", Baroness Deech reviews 'Battleaxe' for Political Home
Join LWN for a thrilling In Conversation with Baroness Margaret Hodge on 16th November from 8pm via Zoom as she shares her stories, her life and her battles.
'Battleaxe' is Margaret's memoir of a life spent in the thick of it. It is candid about mistakes made and lessons learned. It is honest about the grief of losing her husband Henry, the love of her life, and about the loneliness and unexpected freedoms of life without him. It captures the joy of the battles won – crushing Nick Griffin in Barking, forcing transparency on tax havens, calling Corbyn an antisemitic racist to his face and refusing to apologise – and the frustration of watching hard-won gains undone by those who came after.
She has been called a champagne socialist, a national treasure, a loony leftie, a radical reformer, a traitor, and yes – a battleaxe. She has never much minded.
What has always mattered is the fight itself, and the conviction that politics, done properly, can make the world a better place. Margaret, at eighty-one, is still fighting. In this forthright book, she does not spare herself. She reflects on lessons learned from things she got wrong. But above all, she writes with the passionate conviction of someone who has always believed that politics can make the world a better place – and who has spent a lifetime trying to prove it
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