Up until recently I was only vaguely aware that Margaret Bondfield once resided in Brighton, the city where I live and am a Labour councillor.
There is a blue plaque on the premises of a shop she had worked at, but I knew nothing about her. How was it that such an inspirational sister, the first woman cabinet minister and a woman who played such an important role in the formation of our union GMB, was just a blip on my radar?
