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2 unusual facts about Graham Page


Graham Page

He died in office in 1981 and was replaced in parliament by the first Social Democratic Party member to be elected, the former Labour Education Minister Shirley Williams.

Page's death caused a high-profile by-election in which Shirley Williams became the first Social Democratic Party MP to be elected in Britain.


Malcolm Thornton

However, following the death of Sir Graham Page in 1981, Shirley Williams, a former Labour Cabinet minister who had founded the centrist SDP a few months earlier, won the seat.


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