Hilary Armstrong
British politician (born 1945)
Hilary Jane Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, PC DL (born 30 November 1945) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham from 1987 to 2010.
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- [On dealing with sexism from male MPs] One of our colleagues from the northern group had complained about Mo [Mowlam]'s swearing, and he was in the tea room when we got there. So she said: "Oh, it's all right, I won't swear today. But you need to understand the real problems I'm having with my period." I've never seen anybody run faster out of the tea rooms.
- "'We needed a massive amount of resilience': the female Labour MPs from the class of '87", The Guardian (24 March 2023).
- At the 1987 general election, 41 female MPs (6.3% of the 650 total) were returned to the House of Commons. Armstrong and Mowlam shared a flat at the time.
