This comes after Ms Reeves said she would replace all the pictures in state room 11 with paintings. either “by a woman or by a woman”.

Miss Wilkinson became a Labor MP for Middlesbrough East in 1924 and became the second woman to enter the Cabinet when she became education minister under Clement Attlee.

He was instrumental in implementing the Education Act 1944, which provided for universal free secondary education and raised the minimum school-leaving age from 14 to 15, and also oversaw the introduction of free school milk.

He later served Winston ChurchillHe served in the War Cabinet as secretary of homeland security and was responsible for air raid shelters.

In the early years of his political career, he was a member of various political groups such as the Communist Party, the Independent Labor Party and the Labor Party.

Sir Keir Starmer has taken down the portraits that adorned the walls of No 10. Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh.

These were replaced by scenes from Crivelli’s Garden, a mural by Portuguese-born artist Dame Paula Rego, whose work focuses on “strong and courageous women”.