Margaret Beckett is the Labour MP for Derby South, and has been an MP continuously since 9 June 1983. Dame Margaret Mary Beckett DBE PC MP (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983.She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith from 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as interim Leader of the Labour Party after Smith's sudden death. Beckett and her husband enjoy caravan holidays, Former Labour foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has said that it is not a good time to appoint a new House of Commons Speaker, whilst the UK is negotiating Brexit.Mrs Beckett, a member of the Committee of Standards on Public Life, was reacting to the news that John Bercow has told friends he's decided to stand down next summer.
Margaret Beckett argued the Brexit deal should be brought back to the people (Photo: BBC) “This is the beginning. According to It was announced on 29 January 2008 that Beckett would become the new head of the Prime Minister's Having been tipped for a possible return to the front bench in July 2008, due to her reputation as a solid media performer,Beckett is currently a member of the Beckett was found to have claimed £600 for On 10 June 2009, Beckett announced that she wished to replace In August 2009, Beckett wrote to Sir Christopher Kelly, Chairman of the On 26 November 2010, Beckett was announced as the President of the Margaret Beckett was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate In February 2019, however she acknowledged she was "surprised" about how Corbyn had "grown into the job" after taking on the leadership during an interview with On 16 January 2016, Beckett released "Learning the Lessons from Defeat Taskforce Report", a 35-page report into why the Labour Party lost the general election of 2015 after the then-deputy leader The report said that explanations including Labour being "anti-business" or "anti-aspiration" were not "significant" factors, saying that "reasons for defeat should be treated with caution and require deeper analysis".The main reasons given for Labour's losses were the perceived weakness of The report also said that it would be difficult for Labour to win next time because of changes to constituency boundaries (The Beckett report was criticised by some on the left-wing of British politics as "show[ing] that many Labour politicians still don't really understand why they lost" and blaming factors such as the rise of the SNP on Labour's losses, rather than campaigning against In Parliament, she is Chair of the National Security Strategy (Joint Committee), and is a former member of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament and Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee.Margaret Jackson married the chairman of her local Leo Beckett has two sons from a previous marriage, and three grandchildren. After Labour returned to power in Beckett holds the record for the female MP with the longest service overall (Margaret Beckett was born Margaret Mary Jackson in 1943, in In 1973, Beckett was selected as Labour candidate for Almost immediately after her election she was appointed as Judith Hart's Beckett was selected to stand at the She decided to run for the position of Leader, but came last in A footnote to her ten-week tenure as caretaker leader of the Labour Party is that she happened to be the leader at the time of that year's The Labour party was elected to government in a For legal reasons, she was also appointed formally as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which appointment she held until MAFF was finally dissolved on 27 March 2002 and the remaining functions of the Beckett rejected demands for an expansion of In a report published on 29 March 2007 by the Some commentators claim that she was promoted to Foreign Secretary because she was considered to be a 'safe pair of hands' and a loyal member of the Cabinet.Margaret Beckett had to adapt quickly to her diplomatic role and within a few hours of her appointment as Foreign Secretary she flew to the United Nations in New York City for an urgent meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the Beckett is understood to have delegated European issues to the As Foreign Secretary, Beckett came in for some trenchant criticism. He has denied claims that he bullied members of staff.These are external links and will open in a new window A furious row has engulfed the Labour Party after senior figures publicly disagreed over whether the party would back a second referendum in today's Brexit votes.. Dame Margaret Beckett … Dame Margaret is the longest serving female MP and one of …
And my opponent in Derby South, Labour’s Dame Margaret Beckett, is a prime example.