PM Boris Johnson attends the unveiling of the statue of Tory MP Nancy Astor, by former PM Theresa Ma
PM Boris Johnson attends the unveiling of the statue of Tory MP Nancy Astor, by former PM Theresa May.Astor was the first woman to take her seat at Westminster (however not the first woman to be elected an MP: that was Sinn Féin politician Constance Markievicz who didn’t take her seat) MP Nancy Astor was “rabidly” antisemitic, racist, homophobic, anti-catholic, anti-socialist and a supporter of Hitler. Astor wrote letters to US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy in which she suggested the Nazis were a solution to “the world problems” of Jewry and Communism. So pro-German that she was referred to as “the member for Berlin” during a 1939 House of Commons debate. -- source link
#nancy astor#westminster#conservatives#racism#antisemitism#homophobia