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Introducing a legal right to miscarriage bereavement leave would be "a leading light in a world which seems to be taking a backward step in women's rights," she added.

Until a few weeks ago, the Left party looked doomed when one of its leading lights, Sahra Wagenknecht, went off and founded her own, more populist, party with eight other MPs.

Salah has been their leading light from the start of the season and his latest goal took him to 19 for the season - the most by any player in the Premier League at this stage.

Colleagues of Birmingham Royal Ballet's former chief executive Caroline Miller have paid tribute following her death, describing her as a "leading light" who displayed "unbridled enthusiasm, dedication and loyalty".

His mother, Peggy, was a leading light of the London County Council and described by a local paper as the "uncrowned queen of Hampstead".