Early Life
She was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, on the same day as fellow current female MP Caroline Spelman. She went to Haughton Comprehensive School (now part of the 'Education Village') on Rockwell Avenue in Haughton Le Skerne, then Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington. She studied Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. She worked in social care for Liverpool City Council from 1979 to 1988 when she became a trade union organiser for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE). In Liverpool she had been prominent in the campaign to drive members of the Militant tendency out of the Labour Party.
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