David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood NPG x137607

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd

Politician and Leader of the Liberal Party (1976-88). Steel was born in Edinburgh and educated in Nairobi and Edinburgh. He became Liberal MP for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in 1965. President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain (1966-9), Steel sponsored the private members' bill that became the Abortion Act (1967). In 1977 he negotiated the Lib-Lab Pact with the minority Labour government, but in 1982 formed the Liberal/SDP Alliance with the new Social Democratic Party. He shared the leadership with David Owen until the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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