In 1934 the suffragette lobbied government over case in which solicitor spied on cheating wife

The socialist suffragette and human rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst lobbied the British government in the 1930s about eavesdropping on phone conversations, newly unearthed letters reveal.

Pankhurst, who was monitored by MI5 for decades, expressed concern about a case in which a suspicious solicitor had set up a duplicate line so he could listen to and record his wife’s conversations with a lover.

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