Dame Margaret Hodge Battle Axe: A Memoir

Born in Alexandria in 1944 to Jewish parents from Germany and Austria, the politician and life peer arrived in England aged four – stateless, foreign, and an outsider. She'll describe a lifetime of battling back in a memoir of 50 years as an elected representative, from councilor to council leader, MP to minister. Called a champagne socialist, a national treasure, a loony leftie, a radical reformer, a traitor, and, yes – a battleaxe, she'll talk about how she hasn't much minded and explain what has always mattered more.

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