biography
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Hewitt, Patricia (Hope)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1948– )
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| biography:
| British stateswoman, born in Camberra, Australia. Educated in Canberra, Cambridge, and Oxford, she worked in a number of voluntary organizations before becoming general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties (1974–83). She was policy co-ordinator and press secretary to the Labour leader Neil Kinnock (1988–9) before becoming deputy director of the left-leaning think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (1989–94). She worked as a management consultant (1994–6) before being elected as Labour MP for Leicester West in 1997. She became minister for trade and industry (1997–8) then economic secretary to the Treasury (1998–9), and information technology minister (1999–2001). In 2001 she became trade and industry secretary and minister for women. |
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