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Emily Wilding Davison, the suffragette from Morpeth, is another North Northumbrian who fought for what is right. Emily famously hid herself in a broom cupboard here in Parliament on the night of the 1911 census so that she could record her address as the House of Commons to confound those who would deny women the right to vote. I am delighted to follow in her footsteps, and those of William Beveridge, the MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed who authored the eponymous Beveridge report, which served as the basis for that great innovation, the welfare state introduced by the Labour Government in 1945. What would so many of us do without it?