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What to know about ‘Red Ellen’, the radical MP whose portrait is now hanging at 11 Downing Street

Before announcing changes to Britain’s tax system in her first budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves redecorated her own digs. The headline change was swapping a portrait of Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher’s chancellor, with one of Ellen Wilkinson – a trailblazing politician known as “Red Ellen”.

The Conversation

‘She knows her history’: why Rachel Reeves wore a pussybow blouse on budget day

Chancellor’s clothing choice shrewdly followed fashion footsteps of Thatcher, Harris and 17th-century menswear

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves swaps Nigel Lawson portrait for one of Labour MP ‘Red Ellen’

Chancellor has previously pledged to ensure all art in No 11 is either by female artists or of female figures

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‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?

The Guardian - UK

The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights

Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand

The Guardian - UK

Manchester Arndale shoppers can access free menstrual products by using three discreet words

Over 600 people have received free products

Manchester Evening News

Mother left furious after refuse lorry crushes garden wall and her kids' trampoline

Ellen Wilkinson is also unhappy with the safety of the structure of what is left of the wall and says her local council has done an insufficient job in clearing away the debris

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Red Ellen review – sketchy treatment of a heroic politician

Caroline Bird’s drama about the Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson gives us the bullet points of an extraordinary life but slips into melodrama

The Guardian - UK

Red Ellen review – Bettrys Jones gives towering performance in life of political pioneer

Caroline Bird’s play pays tribute to the leftwing firebrand Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow march and as a Labour minister introduced free school milk

The Guardian - UK

Premiere of Red Ellen at Northern Stage reignites fascination with firebrand MP

Here's our review of new show Red Ellen, about Jarrow March leader Ellen Wilkinson, which has its debut in Newcastle ahead of a national tour

Chronicle Live

The story of the North East's 'mighty atom' MP Red Ellen and the hopes it'll reignite a spark

A new play is detailing the life of the firebrand who led famous Jarrow March - and the change for a better world

Chronicle Live

Story of Jarrow Crusade's Red Ellen to feature on BBC2 this week ahead of Newcastle stage debut

Team behind new play about the remarkable life of Labour firebrand MP will appear on BBC2's Inside Culture with Mary Beard this Friday

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