Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton
Dorothea Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton (born October 16, 1952 ) is a British politician of the Labor Party and the Co-operative Party . She has been a member of the House of Lords since 1998 .
Life
Glenys Thornton graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) and in 1981 became political secretary of the consumer cooperative Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society (RACS). In the mid-1980s she became increasingly involved in the Labor Party and was, among other things, chairwoman of the Labor Party in Greater London from 1985 to 1991 .
On July 23, 1998, she was raised as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Thornton , of Manningham in the County of West Yorkshire, to the nobility for life and has since been a member of the House of Lords .
During her membership in the House of Lords, Baroness Thornton, who has been a member of the LSE Board of Directors since 1999 and was a member of the Political Forum of the Labor Party from 2005 to 2008, was whip of the government between 2008 and 2010 and initially in 2008 she was the Labor Group spokesperson for health and work and pensions as well as equality and then from 2009 to 2010 health policy spokeswoman. She was also Baroness in Waiting at the Royal Household ( HM Household ) between January 2008 and March 2010 . Most recently she was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health in the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown between March and May 2010.
Since the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010 , she has been spokeswoman for the opposition Labor parliamentary group in the House of Lords for Equality since 2010 . In addition, she was again the health policy spokesperson from 2010 to 2012 and briefly spokesperson for work and pensions in 2010.
During the British Parliament's donation scandal , she is said to have given false information about her main residence in her mother's bungalow, which is further away. These allegations were later refuted by the parliamentary administration; in this house, for which she had claimed costs, she takes care of her mother and therefore lives mainly.
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 3, 2012)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 4, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Baroness Thornton replaces Lord Darzi at DoH . In: GP Online from February 26, 2010
- ^ MPs' expenses: Tax officials to investigate capital gains evasion . In: The Guardian, May 10, 2009
- ↑ MPs' EXPENSES: Thanks mum, for £ 105,000 - Baroness claims main home is her mother's bungalow . In: Daily Mail of May 11, 2009
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| SURNAME | Thornton, Glenys, Baroness Thornton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thornton, Dorothea Glenys, Baroness Thornton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1952 |