Baroness Shirley Williams: Former Cabinet Minister dies aged 90.

Veteran politician and Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90, the party has announced.

Originally a Labour MP, she was part of the "Gang of Four" who quit the party to found the Social Democratic Party.

She was a leading member of the 1970s Labour government and one of the first women cabinet ministers.

She later went on to support the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, which led to the creation of the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s.

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