ugh. What a dumb prude. You really need to get rid of her.
I agree about getting rid of her (but for different reasons). Problem is that all the different factions in the Birmingham Ladywood CLP hate each other more than they hate her. Inner City politics can be so [expletive deleted] at times...
Well Labour has *always* had a very strong moralist streak (the main forerunner of the party, the ILP, was founded in a Methodist chapel in Bradford and many of it's founders were prohibitionists), more so in some places than others.
Margaret Hodge? She's still an M.P; still a Minister as well.