Rosie Winterton
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The Right Honourable Dame Rosie Winterton DBE MP |
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| Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Commons | |
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In office 7 October 2010 – 6 October 2016 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Nick Brown |
| Succeeded by | Nick Brown |
| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 7 October 2010 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | George Young |
| Succeeded by | Hilary Benn |
| Minister of State for Local Government | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | John Healey |
| Succeeded by | Grant Shapps |
| Minister of State for Work and Pensions | |
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In office 24 January 2008 – 5 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Mike O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Angela Eagle |
| Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
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In office 24 January 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Caroline Flint |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 28 July 2007 – 3 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Stephen Ladyman |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Adonis |
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Member of Parliament for Doncaster Central |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Harold Walker |
| Majority | 10,092 (25%) |
| Personal details | |
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Rosalie Winterton 10 August 1958 Leicester, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Hull |
Dame Rosie Winterton DBE MP (Rosalie Winterton, born 10 August 1958, Leicester) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster Central since 1997. She served under Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the Minister for Work and Pensions from 2008 to 2009, and the Minister for Local Government from 2009 to 2010. She later entered the Shadow Cabinet in May 2010 as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In September 2010, she was nominated and elected unopposed as Labour Chief Whip and served until October 2016.
Educated at St. Mary's (now Hill House School, Doncaster), Ackworth School (an independent school) and Doncaster Grammar School on Thorne Road and then reading for a BA in History at the University of Hull in 1979, Winterton first worked as John Prescott's Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986, and then Parliamentary Officers, first for Southwark Council for two years until 1988 and then for a further two for the Royal College of Nursing until 1990. After working for four years in the private sector, as Managing Director of Connect Public Affairs, she returned to politics to assist John Prescott in 1994; Prescott had been elected as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, and Winterton worked as Head of Office for the Deputy Party Leader until 1997.
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