Shirley Williams, Lib Dem Peer And Former Cabinet Minister, Dies Aged 90
The former cabinet minister and Lib Dem peer Baroness Shirley Williams has died aged 90. In an announcement on Monday, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said it was “heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family”. Williams was one of the disenchanted ex-Labour cabinet ministers who became the gang of four founders of the breakaway and short-lived Social Democratic Party (SDP). As a Labour minister, Lady Williams, served in the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1970s rising to become education secretary. Throughout her political career, both in the Labour Party and subsequently the SDP and then the Lib Dems, Williams was a passionate pro-European. Davey said: “Shirley has been an inspiration to millions, a...