Glenys kinnock baroness kinnock of holyhead
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Glenys Kinnock
British peer and politician (1944–2023)
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, FRSA (née Parry; 7 July 1944 – 3 December 2023), was a British politician and teacher who served as Minister of State for europe from June to October 2009 and Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales, formerly South Wales East, from 1994 to 2009.
Early life
[edit]Glenys Elizabeth Parry was born in Roade, Northamptonshire, and educated at Holyhead Comprehensive School, Anglesey.[1] She graduated in 1965 from University College, Cardiff in education and history.[2] Parry worked at Moorland Primary School, in Splott, in 1966.[3] She met Neil Kinnock at university[4] and married him in 1967.[5]
European Parliament
[edit]Kinnock represented Wales in the europeisk Parliament from 1
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Glenys Kinnock: Former minister and wife of Neil Kinnock dies aged 79
Political reporter, BBC News
Former Labour minister Glenys Kinnock, an ex-MEP and wife of ex-Labour leader Lord Kinnock, has died at 79, her family have said.
They praised her political work, saying Europe, Africa and the UN were the "three great passions of her life".
Her family said she had "endured Alzheimer's" since a 2017 diagnosis and faced it with "innate courage".
Gordon Brown made her a baroness in 2009 so she could serve as a Foreign Office minister in his government.
Her family, which includes Labour MP Stephen Kinnock and daughter Rachel, said they were "devastated" by her death.
In a statement they said: "Neil was with her in her final moments. They had been married for 56 years.
"A proud democratic socialist, she campaigned, in Britain and internationally, for justic
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Glenys Kinnock: The political spouse who became a force in her own right
BBC Wales political reporter
Glenys Kinnock, who has died aged 79, was the wife of the former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock - and a prominent political figure in her own right.
She had a high profile during her husband's time leading the party through most of the 1980s and into the early 90s.
When he resigned after Labour's 1992 election defeat, she spent 15 years in the European Parliament and then a year as a UK government foreign minister in Gordon Brown's government.
As Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, she sat in the Lords between 2009 and April 2021.
Born on 7 July 1944 as Glenys Elizabeth Parry, she grew up in a Welsh-speaking, chapel-going family on Anglesey.
Her father was a railway signalman, union official and former merchant seaman who claimed that her pram was crammed full of Labour literature during the campaign that