The House of Commons would ring with her cries of "Shame, shame" as she sniffed out another Tory plot for fleecing the working man. At Westminster in the 1970s she was regarded as something of a left-wing nuisance , a state of affairs that she viewed as necessary and desirable.
There was no doubt that Mr Tony Benn was correct in describing her as "highly motivated in the sense of right and wrong". A few days later Audrey Wise was arrested on the Grunwick picket line for obstructing a policeman, who, she claimed, had been pulling another woman demonstrator's hair. She fought against whatever she felt was wrong and she thought that a great deal about the organisation of society was very wrong. Audrey Wise (4 January 1932 – 2 September 2000) was a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament. In February 1974, she became Labour MP for Coventry South West, and soon attacked the authoritarian enemy on all fronts. New York will review any Covid-19 vaccine approved by US government, Job losses in sport could reach 300,000 due to coronavirus - with 10,000 already gone, Premiership final to take place behind closed doors at Twickenham, Schools being partially closed due to Covid will be 'way of life' until vaccine, academy chief says, Coronavirus latest news: London added to lockdown 'watch list'.
HMSO: London, contributions in Parliament by Audrey Wise, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Audrey_Wise&oldid=969075620, Councillors in the London Borough of Haringey, Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies, Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies, Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Lancashire, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 July 2020, at 07:33. The Labour Government was far from amused to have to give back £450 million to the taxpayer. At the age of 21, she became a Tottenham borough councillor in north London. Most significantly, with Jeff Rooker she co-authored the Rooker-Wise Amendment to Chancellor Denis Healey's 1977 finance bill. At the general election of 1983, however, she lost the supposedly safe Labour seat of Woolwich East.
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In 1974, described as "a lecturer on political matters" (actually she was a shorthand typist), Audrey Wise was elected, with a slender majority of 513, for Coventry South-West, Richard Crossman's old seat. This introduced retrospective inflation-proofing on tax allowances, which led to £450m being handed back to taxpayers. During the 1970s she was a leading member of the Institute for Workers' Control. Audrey Wise's manner was that of a campaigner, an indefatigable activist, but many radical socialists, especially socialist feminists, will also remember her as a thinker of real insight. The report,[5] endorsed by the Conservative government, called for services to become more woman-centred, and recommended increased access to home births and water births. Audrey's maternal grandfather, Charles Crawford, had also been an active socialist. All rights reserved. When working with me, you can be assured of a solid work ethic, honesty, integrity and professionalism every step of the way.
This led to a landmark 1992 report, which prompted the Conservative government to endorse the committee's findings and led to policies which offered women more choice and control of their circumstances during pregnancy, birth and post-natal care. A radical extension of democracy was a constant theme of her life. She lost her Coventry seat at the general election of 1979, but achieved some compensation in 1981, when she was elected to Labour's National Executive, a position she held until 1987.