It was election time and everyone was clamouring for votes to win seats at Westminster and on local councils.

Andrew Smith, prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate for Oxford East, is pictured with MP Jo Richardson, Labour spokesman on women’s rights, outside Barton Village First School in 1987.

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With them in the picture are, left to right, pupils Victoria Thomas, seven, and Donna Stimpson, eight, Donna’s mother, Brenda Stimpson and Maureen Christian, who was standing for Labour in the city council election.

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Labour had launched a campaign to fight low pay and discrimination against women.

Miss Richardson said most of the lowest paid workers were women and Labour was determined to offer them decent jobs.