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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Dr Edith Summerskill, Labour politician and feminist, began her political life in Harringay.

She entered active politics almost by chance when she was 32 and in practice in Wood Green...she was asked to fight the Green Lanes ward of Harringay in the Middlesex County Council elections, a safe Conservative seat, and she won with a healthy majority.

Obituary, British Medical Journal Feb 16th 1980


See also Wood Green Past by Albert Pinching, HHS, 2000, page 138

Wikipedia entry

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she was asked to fight

I'm curious, do political parties often enlist a popular local figure to "win" an election and then provide them with support etc afterwards?

That wikipedia article about her is interesting. Whatever happened to the Ministry of Food? Is that now Tesco et al?

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