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Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock FRSA (born Glenys Elizabeth Parry, 7 July 1944) is a Welsh politician who has been a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament since 1994. Before that, she was best known as the wife of Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. When Neil Kinnock received a life peerage in 2005, Glenys became entitled to the style The Lady Kinnock, which she has chosen not to use.
Glenys is now patron of the charity EdUKaid, a role she shares with Clive Barnett HMI (Oxon), former headmaster of Bishop Wordsworth's School.
was educated at Holyhead High School, Anglesey and graduated in 1965 from University College, Cardiff in education and history.
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Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock FRSA (born Glenys Elizabeth Parry, 7 July 1944) is a Welsh politician who has been a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament since 1994. Before that, she was best known as the wife of Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. When Neil Kinnock received a life peerage in 2005, Glenys became entitled to the style The Lady Kinnock, which she has chosen not to use.
Glenys is now patron of the charity EdUKaid, a role she shares with Clive Barnett HMI (Oxon), former headmaster of Bishop Wordsworth's School.
Early life
She was educated at Holyhead High School, Anglesey and graduated in 1965 from University College, Cardiff in education and history. She met her future husband Neil Kinnock at university and married him in 1967. She has worked as a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools, including the Wykeham Primary School, Neasden, London. She is a member of the GMB, the Co-operative Party, and the NUT. She speaks Welsh, albeit reluctantly.
European Parliament
Lady Kinnock represents Wales in the European Parliament where she is a member of the PES political group . She is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee and a substitute member of the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs. She is also co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and is Labour spokesperson on International Development in the European Parliament. She is President of Steel Action in the European Parliament.
In December 2007, The Observer reported that she would be standing down from the European Parliament at the next election, when she will be 65.
Attributes
She is a patron, president or board member of a number of charitable organisations, including Saferworld, Drop the Debt, Parliamentarians for Global Action, The Burma Campaign UK,
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, World Parliamentarian Magazine, Voluntary Service Overseas and the British Humanist Association.
She founded One World Action (formerly The Bernt Carlsson Trust) on 21 December 1989, exactly one year after UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 crash. In December 2007, a United Nations inquiry was called for into Bernt Carlsson's death.
In November 2006 Glenys Kinnock was criticized in the press for "taking a junket" to Barbados to discuss world poverty issues . She was actually co-presiding over the 12th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly which was invited by the Barbados government to discuss international aid and development.
On 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Joe Biden to attend Barack Obama's presidential inauguration on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..
Academic distinctions
University College, Cardiff, BA (Education and History) (1965). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Newport, and the University of Wales, Bangor. She holds honorary Doctorates from Thames Valley University, Brunel University and Kingston University.
Publications
- Voices for One World, 1987
- Eritrea - images of war and peace, 1988
- Namibia - birth of a nation, 1991
- By Faith and Daring, 1993
- Zimbabwe on the brink, 2002
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