THIS week Britain celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Act which gave the vote to women for the first time. No less importantly, though given rather less attention, the same legislation extended the franchise to 5.6 million working class men - men who were still fighting in the trenches at the time but who had had no say in electing the government that had sent them there.
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