Maureen Colquhoun

Maureen Colquhoun (Maureen Morfydd Colquhoun, born 2 August 1928) is an economist and Labour politician.

In 1974 she was elected as Labour MP for Northampton North. She appeared to be a happily married woman with three grown up children, but she soon left her husband to set up home with a female partner, magazine publisher Barbara Todd, thereby becoming Britain's first openly lesbian MP. This came as a shock to the Labour Party. As her local party chairman Norman Ashby said:

"She was elected as a working wife and mother... this business has blackened her image irredeemably."

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