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Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine has joined female MPs from across the political spectrum to mark the 97th anniversary of universal suffrage for women in the United Kingdom.

White women eventually gained suffrage in 1920, but it would be another half-century before all women’s voting rights were protected nationwide with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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