Barbara Castle, 91, the fiery Red Queen of Britain's Labor Party who held several cabinet posts under Prime Minister Harold Wilson but crippled a brilliant career when she crossed swords with her ...

Barbara Castle who was born 100 years ago on October 6th and who died in 2001, has soared in public opinion ever since she quit politics, propelled on the updraft of anti-new Labour sentiment and ...

Baroness Castle, the left-wing flame-headed political tornado, was the best-known woman parliamentarian of her day and once looked like becoming Britain's first female Prime Minister. She remained ...

Barbara Castle, the fiery Red Queen of Britain's Labor Party who held several Cabinet posts under Prime Minister Harold Wilson but crippled a brilliant career when she crossed swords with her ...

Barbara Castle was among the eager young politicians who entered Parliament in the first post-war election, their minds aflame with radical ideas, proclaiming a “new dawn” in politics.

Castle, one of the country’s longest serving female MPs, was passionately opposed to means-testing. In 1966, when the Cabinet first discussed what would 10 years later become the child benefit ...

The statue of former Blackburn MP and Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle has been relocated to a new, temporary home. The larger than life-size bronze artwork had to be moved from its original ...