Jean Corston, Baroness Corston
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Jean Ann Corston, Baroness Corston, PC (born 5 May 1942, Jean Ann Parkin) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.
Corston was Member of Parliament for Bristol East from 1992 to 2005. Until stepping down at the 2005 general election, she was chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the first woman ever to hold that position.
On 13 May 2005 it was announced that she would be created a life peer, and on 29 June 2005 she was created Baroness Corston, of St George in the County and City of Bristol.
She was commissioned by the government, to conduct a report into the state of female prisons, published in march 2007.
She married Christopher Corston in 1961, and her present partner (Peter Townsend, the social economist) in 1985.
[edit] External links
- BBC: City MP to stand down at election
- [1] see link from peers' section to biography
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Jonathan Sayeed |
Member of Parliament for Bristol East 1992–2005 |
Succeeded by Kerry McCarthy |
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| Preceded by Clive Soley |
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party 2001–2005 |
Succeeded by Ann Clwyd |
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