Liz Kendall
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Liz Kendall MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Care and Older People | |
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In office 7 October 2011 – 12 September 2015 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Keeley (Older People, Social Care and Carers) |
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Member of Parliament for Leicester West |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Patricia Hewitt |
| Majority | 7,203 (20.9%) |
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Elizabeth Louise Kendall 11 June 1971 Abbots Langley, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
| Website | lizkendall |
Elizabeth Louise Kendall (born 11 June 1971) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010. In 2011, Kendall was appointed Shadow Minister for Care and Older People and invited to attend meetings of the Shadow Cabinet.
On 10 May 2015, Kendall announced she would stand to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election initiated following the resignation of Ed Miliband. On 12 September, the results were announced with Kendall finishing last, in fourth place.
Kendall was born and raised in the village of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, near Watford. Her father left school at sixteen years old, and worked his way up to become a senior Bank of England official, and her mother was a primary school teacher. Her father was also a local Liberal councillor and her parents involved her in local campaigns as a child. Both of her parents are now active supporters of the Labour Party.
She attended Watford Grammar School for Girls, where she was Head Girl and a contemporary of Geri Halliwell and the Conservative cabinet minister Priti Patel. After leaving school, she read History at Queens' College, Cambridge, where she captained the ladies' football team, and graduated from Cambridge University with a first in 1993.
Kendall joined the Labour Party in 1992 and, after leaving university, worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) where she became an associate director for health, social care and children’s early years. In 1996, she became a political adviser to Harriet Harman, and her special adviser in the Department for Social Security after the 1997 general election.
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