Rachel Squire
| Rachel Squire | |
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Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife Dunfermline West (1992–2005) |
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In office 9 April 1992 – 5 January 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Dick Douglas |
| Succeeded by | Willie Rennie |
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13 July 1954 Carshalton, Surrey |
| Died | 5 January 2006 (aged 51) Saline, Fife |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Durham University, Trevelyan College, Durham, University of Birmingham |
Rachel Anne Squire (13 July 1954 – 5 January 2006) was a British Labour Party politician in Scotland. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline West from 1992 general election to 2005, and then for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2005 until her death after a long series of illnesses.
Squire was born in Carshalton, Surrey, England. She attended the all-female Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith and then proceeded to a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University, and a social work qualification at Birmingham University. After university, Squire became a social worker, also working in factories and other manual jobs. She became a full-time official with National Union of Public Employees, the public sector union, later part of UNISON. Working for the union took her to Merseyside and then to Scotland, where she became the union's education officer. She served on the Labour Scottish Executive.
According to a profile on the BBC website, Rachel Squire was "one of the most committed and successful constituency advocates in Parliament". She worked to get regeneration funds for her constituency, campaigned for the Rosyth Dockyard and secured funds to put off the closure of the Longannet coal mine.
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