Biography

Bessie Braddock was born on September 24, 1889 in Liverpool, England, UK. She died on November 13, 1970 in Liverpool, England, UK.

Credited with this exchange with Winston Churchill: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk.", "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.".

Labour Member of Parliament (1945-1970), she and her husband helped to form the Liverpool branch of the Communist Party in 1922.