biography
| sex:
| female
|
| lived:
| (1946– )
|
| biography:
| British stateswoman. She studied at Keele and Leeds universities, and after working as a civil servant and in local community organizations, became an MP in 1983. She was the opposition spokesperson on employment (1985–8), social security (1988–91), environmental protection (1992–3), and women (1993–5), then joined the shadow cabinet (1995), and was spokesperson on transport (1995–6) and overseas development (1996–7). She became secretary of state for international development in the Labour government (1997), a position she retained following the general election in 2001. |
|
|
