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Baroness Trumpington

December 2018

  • Baroness Trumpington

    The shifting patterns of English
    May I have a word about… policy speak and Jean Trumpington

    Jonathan Bouquet
    The late, great baroness would have given short shrift to the recent offering from the Policy Exchange thinktank

30 November 2018

  • Baroness Trumpington when she was caught on camera in the Lords chamber flicking a V-sign at a fellow Tory peer

    The V-sign: now that’s what I call a digital message

    Terry Victor
    The late Baroness Trumpington’s gestural slang spoke directly to our hearts, says lexicographer Terry Victor

27 November 2018

  • Long-serving peer who has died made headlines in 2012 after making a V-sign at Lord King when he referred to her age during a debate in the Lords

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    Lady Trumpington gives V-sign to fellow peer – archive video

  • Lady Trumpington in London in 2015

    Prime ministers and peers pay tribute to Lady Trumpington

  • Jean Trumpington in 2012. Over her long political career she served as a health minister and mayor of Cambridge.

    Lady Trumpington obituary

  • Baroness Trumpington death<br>Screengrab taken from Parliament TV in November 2011 of Baroness Trumpington when she was caught on camera in the Lords chamber flicking a V-sign at a fellow Tory peer over what she perceived as a rude remark about her age. Baroness Trumpington, a Bletchley Park code-breaker, has died at the age of 96, her son has said. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday November 25, 2014. See PA story DEATH Trumpington. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    Lady Trumpington, former Bletchley Park codebreaker, dies aged 96

October 2017

  • Baroness Trumpington

    To stand up to sex predators like Weinstein, learn from this defiant baroness

    Gaby Hinsliff
    To deal with sexual predators, the Trumpington generation can teach us so much, writes the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

May 2014

  • Baroness Jean Trumpington Coming Up Trumps

    Digested read
    Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir by Jean Trumpington – digested read

    John Crace reduces Lady Trumpington's jaunt through high society and politics to 750 words of naughtiness

April 2014

  • Baroness Trumpington on her memoir: 'I didn't write the damn book and I haven't read it either.'

    The enigmatic life of Lady Trumpington

    The nonagenarian peer talks to Rachel Cooke about her long and extraordinary life, now retold in a vivid memoir

November 2011

  • Michael White

    Baroness Trumpington upholds parliamentary tradition

    Michael White

    Michael White: Baroness Trumpington denies she made a V-sign in the House of Lords, but Churchill would have approved anyhow

  • Baroness Trumpington gives v-sign to Lord King - video

    Baroness Trumpington gives a member of the House of Lords a v-sign in parliament after he referred to her age

  • V sign

    Media Monkey
    House of Lords' V-sign makes X-rated viewing

    Media Monkey: Baroness Trumpington gives a hand signal to Lord King that is not often seen on BBC Parliament

June 2009

  • Ageing Britain
    The peers

    Baroness Trumpington, 86, Lord Bramall, 85, Baroness Butler-Sloss, 75 and Lord Paul, 78

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