Member of Parliament
Kennedy has been a Member of Parliament since the 1992 general election, when she was elected by the Liverpool Broadgreen constituency. She served as a member of the social security select committee from 1992 to 1994, and in 1995 she was appointed as a Labour whip.
Her constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election, but she was returned to Parliament for the new Liverpool Wavertree constituency.
After Labour's victory in the 1997 election, she served as an assistant government whip until 1998 and as a government whip until 1999, sitting on the House of Commons administration select committee from 1997 to 1999.
On 9 November 2009 she announced she would be standing down at the 2010 general election.
It was announced in January 2010 the Wavertree Labour party had picked Luciana Berger as her successor. This selection caused some controversy because of Berger's London background, but also because she was resident at Mrs Kennedy's home for a month before the selection, a home Mrs Kennedy shares with her partner Peter Dowling, who is the local Labour party's agent. The postal votes were sent to Mr Dowling at Kennedy's home.
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