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Joseph Sturge and John Bright

John Bright MP and the 1867 Reform Act
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John Bright was elected MP for Birmingham 1858. He was strongly pro-reform, and was instrumental in the passage of the Second Reform Act in 1867.

Joseph Sturge and the Complete Suffrage Union
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Joseph Sturge was another Birmingham figure with strong links to the movement for Parliamentary reform.