Linda Perham is a
LabourThe Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
politician in the
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.
Career
Perham was a
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councillor and Mayor of the Borough prior to the 1997 election. She was
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for
Ilford NorthIlford North is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It comprises the north part of the town of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge, and elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of...
from 1997, defeating
Vivian BendallVivian Walter Hough Bendall is a British estate agent and politician. After gaining the seat in a by-election he served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Ilford North from 1978 until his defeat in 1997. Bendall is on the right-wing of the party.-Business life:Born in Croydon, Bendall's...
, until she lost her seat at the
2005 electionThe United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....
to Lee Scott. By profession, she was a librarian, working latterly at Epping Forest College in
LoughtonLoughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill...
. She was elected an honorary fellow of the
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in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).
She is now Chair of the Thames Water Trust Fund; Chair of East Living, a subsidiary of East Thames Group; Member, Consumer Council for Water Thames; Consumer Director, TrustMark; Justice of the Peace; President of Hainault Community Association.
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