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Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
FRSA
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Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations
In office
13 October 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by The Lord Malloch-Brown (Africa, Asia and the United Nations)
Succeeded by Henry Bellingham (Undersecretary of State)
Minister of State for Europe
In office
5 June 2009 – 13 October 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Caroline Flint
Succeeded by Chris Bryant (Undersecretary of State for Europe and Asia)
Member of the European Parliament
for Wales
In office
10 June 1999 – 5 June 2009
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Derek Vaughan
Member of the European Parliament
for South Wales East
In office
19 July 1994 – 10 June 1999
Preceded by Llew Smith
Succeeded by Position abolished
Personal details
Born Glenys Elizabeth Parry
(1944-07-07) 7 July 1944 (age 72)
Roade, England
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Neil Kinnock
Children Stephen
Rachel
Alma mater Cardiff University

Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, FRSA (née Parry; born 7 July 1944) is a British politician and former teacher.

She was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009. She is the wife of Neil Kinnock, who was leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. When Neil Kinnock received a life peerage in 2005, Glenys became entitled to the style "Lady Kinnock", which she chose not to use. She was awarded a life peerage when she joined the government in 2009. She and her husband are one of the few couples to both hold life peerages in their own right. From 2010 to 2013 she was the Opposition Spokesperson for the Department of International Development in the House of Lords.

Glenys Elizabeth Parry was born at Roade, Northamptonshire, and educated at Holyhead High School, Anglesey. She graduated in 1965 from University College, Cardiff in education and history. She met her future husband Neil Kinnock at university and married him in 1967. She worked as a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools, including the Wykeham Primary School, Neasden, London. She is a member of the GMB, the Co-operative Party, and the NUT. She speaks Welsh, but she did not pass this heritage on to her son, Stephen Kinnock, who is married to the former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and through him she has two granddaughters and through her daughter Rachel she has a granddaughter and a grandson.


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