My mentor Glenda Jackson taught me to be a rebel with a cause | Tulip Siddiq

I first met Glenda Jackson in 2003.I was a young, impressionable university student and she had come to speak at our local Labour party meeting.The hot topic of the day was the war in Iraq.Glenda was unashamedly against the war and wasn't mincing her words about Tony Blair.She was under a huge amount of pressure to vote for the war, but she told us that her conscience wouldn't allow her to do so.

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