Impressive as the Tories may have found her, she was still, as a mother of two young children, obliged to fight three elections in Labour safe seats, always reducing her opponent's majority, before she was trusted enough to be selected for a Conservative safe seat, Finchley, which she won in 1959.
"Such an approach would, in our view, maximise the benefits of large scale procurement whilst at the same time allowing trusts to select services that are most suited to local needs," the report says.
But it is hard to see Saturday's decision as anything other, unless it is viewed as merely a culminating episode in what once seemed an unlikely conflict for power between men who had been trusted allies, with the party selecting Mr. Mbeki as its president in 1997 and Mr. Zuma as his deputy.
The natural helper model offers a framework through which the community would be more engaged in order to select VHT members that are trusted and supported by the community members and lead to better outcomes in CHW programmes.
In New Haven, city officials, having concluded that their written test was flawed, said there was another, trusted method to select firefighting lieutenants and captains that posed less of a disadvantage to blacks and Hispanics.
The people selected to take part on the discussion groups were trusted within their community and able to convince others about important issues.
