Carey Mulligan stars alongside Meryl Streep in drama about the suffragrettes who fought for women’s right to voteSuffragette, the first feature film to tell the story of women’s fight for the vote, will kick off this year’s London film festival (LFF). Starring Carey Mulligan, the film tells the story of the working-class British women who, inspired by the suffragette leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, took their fight for enfranchisement to the male establishment in Westminster.Mulligan plays Maud, a housewife who defies her husband (Ben Whishaw) and risks losing custody of her children in the struggle for universal suffrage.