1. Audrey Wise was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament for Coventry South West from 1974 to 1979, and for Preston from 1987 until her death.
11 Facts About Audrey Wise
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Audrey Wise was born Audrey Brown in Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of a former Labour councillor.
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Audrey Wise married her husband John, a dispensing optician, in 1953, and they two children: Valerie, who is a political activist, and a son, Ian.
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Audrey Wise served as MP for Coventry South West from February 1974 to 1979, a period of tenuous Labour Government with marginal or no majorities.
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Audrey Wise visited Portugal in 1974 to report on and participate in the Carnation Revolution that overthrew the fascist dictatorship, recording her experiences and analysis in Eyewitness in Revolutionary Portugal.
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Audrey Wise was famously arrested on the picket line during the Grunwick dispute where Asian women workers were striking for union recognition.
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Audrey Wise was then elected as MP for Preston in 1987, which she held until her death in 2000.
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Audrey Wise was a member of the left-wing Campaign Group of Labour MPs.
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Audrey Wise was president of the shop staff union USDAW between 1991 and 1997.
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On 2 September 2000, Audrey Wise died at her home in Stafford from a brain tumour, which had been diagnosed some five months earlier.
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Audrey Wise's family described her death as "one fight she did not win".