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Theresa May: suffragette or suffragist?
Would Prime Minister Theresa May have broken the law to help women get the vote - like the suffragettes? Or would she have stuck to persuasive campaigning like the suffragists?
She told Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray whether - had she been alive 100 years ago - she would have signed up to Emmeline Pankhurst's brand of militant direct action by setting fire to buildings, or taken Millicent Fawcett's approach of gradual constitutional reform.
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