Barbara Follett (politician)
| Barbara Follett | |
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| Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government | |
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In office 22 September 2009 – 6 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Minister for Culture and Tourism | |
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In office 4 October 2008 – 22 September 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Margaret Hodge |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Hodge |
| Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Equality | |
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In office October 2007 – October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Department for Work and Pensions | |
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In office June 2007 – October 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Minister for the East of England, Regional Affairs | |
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In office June 2007 – May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
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Member of Parliament for Stevenage |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 7 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Wood |
| Succeeded by | Stephen McPartland |
| Personal details | |
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Daphne Barbara Hubbard 25 December 1942 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) |
Richard Turner (1963-1970) Gerald Stonestreet (1970-1974) Les Broer (1974-1985) Ken Follett (1985—) |
| Children |
Jann Turner (1964—) Kim Turner (1968—) Adam Broer (1975—) |
| Residence | London; Hertfordshire |
| Alma mater | Sandford School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ellerslie School for Girls, Sea Point, Cape Town University of Cape Town London School of Economics Open University |
| Website | http://www.barbara-follett.org.uk/ |
Daphne Barbara Follett (née Hubbard, born 25 December 1942) was the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Stevenage from 1997 until 2010. During this time she held several parliamentary and, despite having voted 19 times against her own government, ministerial positions. In the decade before entering Parliament she played a major part in transformation of the Labour Party. Firstly, by making members more aware of their visual impact on voters and secondly by co-founding and running two organisations, Labour Women's Network and Emily's List UK, which spearheaded reforms that helped Labour to return a record number of 101 women to Parliament in 1997. Follett was a notable case in the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal. She stood down in 2010 in order to take over the running of her husband, bestselling author Ken Follett's, growing business.
She was born Daphne Barbara Hubbard in Kingston, Jamaica, where her father (originally from Manchester, UK) was an insurance executive. In 1946 the family returned to Britain, first to Jersey then in 1947 to Billericay, Essex. In 1952 the family moved to Ethiopia where her father set up the country’s first insurance company in partnership with Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley, the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa. She began a University degree in Art, but in 1962 had to give it up and started work with Barclays Bank.
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