Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

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Glenys Kinnock

Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead , FRSA (born Glenys Elizabeth Parry , born July 7, 1944 in Roade , Northamptonshire ) is a British politician ( Labor Party ).

She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2009 . Previously, she was best known as the wife of Neil Kinnock , who headed the Labor Party from 1983 to 1992. When he received a life peerage as Baron Kinnock in 2005 , she was allowed to use the courtesy title "Baroness Kinnock", which she did not use. When she entered the cabinet in 2009, she herself became a holder of a life peerage. She and her husband are one of the few couples who both have titles of nobility, in this case the Life Peerages, in their own right. Kinnock was Labor Party's shadow minister for the Department of International Development in the House of Lords (since 2011).

life and career

Glenys Kinnock was born in Roade , Northamptonshire and attended Holyhead High School in Anglesey . She graduated in 1965 at the Cardiff University in the subjects of Education ( Education ) and history ( History ). From 1964 to 1966 she was secretary of the Socialist Society at Cardiff University. From 1965 to 1966 she was chairman of the National Union of Students in Cardiff.

She met her future husband Neil Kinnock at university and married him in 1967. She worked as a teacher (from 1966 to 1993) in secondary and primary schools, as well as in kindergartens, including the Wykeham Primary School in Neasden , London. She is a member of the GMB , the Co-operative Party and the National Union of Teachers (NUT). She speaks Welsh .

Membership in the European Parliament

Kinnock represented in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 the constituency of South East Wales and from 1999 to 2009, constituency Wales and was a member of there PES group. She was a member of the Development and Co-operation Committee and an alternate member of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs . She was also Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly from 2002 to 2009 and was Labor Spokesperson for International Development in the European Parliament.

She co-chaired the 12th ACP- EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, to which the government of Barbados invited in November 2006 to discuss international aid and development. For her participation in this conference, which dealt in particular with the issues of water scarcity , development aid and trade policy of the EU, Kinnock was criticized in the press. During the conference, the parliamentarians were accommodated in international luxury hotels with numerous leisure facilities.

In 2004, her name was linked to an expense scandal. MEP Hans-Peter Martin stated that 195 of his colleagues had received the European Parliament's attendance allowance . Kinnock was among the MPs who spotted Martin and filmed them walking out of the building shortly after showing up for the day to secure themselves for the £ 175 daily flat rate.

In January 2009, Kinnock and her husband, Neil Kinnock, received a personal invitation from Joe Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC .

Membership in the House of Lords

In the 2009 cabinet reshuffle, Kinnock was named Minister of State for Europe after Caroline Flint resigned. To enable her entry into the government, she was appointed Life Peeress as Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, of Holyhead in the County of Ynys Môn on June 30, 2009 . On the same day she was officially introduced into the House of Lords . She was supported by Frank Judd, Baron Judd and Janet Royall . She gave her inaugural address on the same day.

From 2009 to 2010 she was Minister of State and Government Spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . In 2009 she was Minister for Europe, from 2009 to 2010 Minister for Africa and the UN . In 2010 she became opposition spokesperson for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

On the website of the House of Lords, she mentions development aid , regional policy , gender issues , children's rights and education as topics of political interest . She names the states of Africa and the Caribbean and Burma as states of interest .

In September 2009, The Daily Telegraph listed Kinnock as the 38th most influential left in the UK.

From October 12, 2009 to May 11, 2010, Kinnock was Minister of State for Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and the UN, filling a vacancy following the resignation of Mark Malloch Brown . Kinnock has been a long-standing African and Caribbean affairs activist and has cemented her reputation as an expert on these regions during her tenure as a Member of the European Parliament and as Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Further offices and honors

Kinnock is a member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations . She is patron ( saint ), president or board member of a number of charitable organizations, including Saferworld , Drop the Debt , EdUKaid , Parliamentarians for Global Action , The Burma Campaign UK , the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative , Voluntary Service Overseas and the British Humanist Association . She is also patron ( saint ) of Snap Cymru , a Welsh children's charity.

On December 21, 1989, she founded the charity One World Action (previously The Bernt Carlsson Trust ), which is particularly committed to women's rights in Africa and Asia. Exactly one year earlier, Bernt Carlsson , the UN commissioner for Namibia , was killed in the Lockerbie attack .

She has served as President of Coleg Harlech , South East Wales Racial Equality Council , St David's Foundation , UK National Breast Cancer Coalition Wales , Community Enterprise Wales and Charter Housing . Kinnock was patron ( saint ) of Welsh Woman of the Year , Crusaid , Elizabeth Hardie Ferguson Trust , Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture and the National Deaf Children's Society . She was a board member of World Parliamentarian Magazine and a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Network on Children and Armed Conflict .

Kinnock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Newport and Bangor University . She has received honorary doctorates from Thames Valley University , Brunel University and Kingston University .

Currently (as of July 2011), Kinnock is President of the Welsh Council of Voluntary Associations and Vice President of the UK Women of the Year Lunch and Assembly . She is also a board member of the European Center for Development Policy Management .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Profile on the House of Lords website , accessed June 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament , accessed on 19 June 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.socialistgroup.eu
  3. ↑ 12th Session - BARBADOS (Bridgetown) November 18-23, 2006 Summary on the website of the European Parliament , accessed on June 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ MEPs save world ... from Barbados. In: The Times . November 12, 2006.
  5. ↑ Eurosceptics likely to gain from voter apathy in EU election. In: The Independent. June 3, 2004.
  6. ↑ Revealed: How the Kinnocks have enjoyed an astonishing £ 10m ride on the EU gravy train. In: The Daily Mail. June 14, 2009.
  7. ^ Labor politicians Neil and Glenys Kinnock to attend Obama's inauguration. In: thefirstpost. January 20, 2009.
  8. ^ Biden invites Kinnock to Washington. In: Wales Online. January 19, 2009.
  9. ↑ Introduction: Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Introduction to the House of Lords at theyworkforyou , accessed on June 19, 2011.
  10. ↑ 30 Jun 2009: Column 107 Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of 30 June 2009.
  11. ↑ Top 100 most influential left wingers. In: The Telegraph. September 28, 2009.
  12. ↑ Chris Bryant replaces Glenys Kinnock as Europe minister. In: The Guardian. October 12, 2009.
  13. ↑ ECFR's Board and Council website of the European Council on Foreign Relations , accessed June 19, 2011.
  14. ↑ SAFER WORLD website of Saferworld , accessed on 19 June 2011th
  15. ↑ Drop the Debt ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Drop the Debt - Make Poverty History website , accessed June 19, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.makepovertyhistory.org
  16. ↑ Welcome to EdUKaid! Website of EdUKaid , accessed on 19 June 2011th
  17. ↑ Parliamentarians for Global Action Website of Parliamentarians for Global Action , accessed June 19, 2011.
  18. ↑ About Us website of the Burma Campaign UK , accessed June 19, 2011.
  19. ↑ This is IAVI ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. International AIDS Vaccine Initiative website , accessed June 19, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iavi.org
personal data
SURNAME Kinnock, Glenys, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinnock, Glenys Elizabeth; Parry, Glenys Elizabeth; Kinnock, Glenys Elizabeth, Baroness Kinnock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Roade , Northamptonshire