Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

...for women such as Labour peer Baroness Uddin becoming the "first Muslim women in the House of Lords" in 1998 and Labour's Baroness Amos becoming the first black women Cabinet member in 2003. In addition to being the first female prime...

In this article: Margaret Thatcher, Labour, Harriet Harman, Baroness Amos, Britain, Parliamentary Qualification of Women Act, and Diane Abbott

...cuts. Instead, it was the incoming New Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown. Failed politician Baroness Amos has recently been appointed High Commissioner to Australia And it was Brown who claimed the credit for the fact that the strength of...

In this article: Gordon Brown, James Callaghan, Labour Party, John Major, David Cameron, Denis Healey, Kenneth Clarke, and Baroness Amos

...Britain's High Commissioner in Australia. Ms Liddell, 58, who spent four years in the post, is to be replaced by another Labour stalwart, former Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Valerie Amos. Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to...

In this article: Helen Liddell, Labour, Valerie Amos, Australia, House of Lords, John Smith, Gordon Brown, and Britain

...issues such as drug and people-trafficking'. The delegation to Jamaica, which includes Labour peer Baroness Amos, will stay at the GBP130-a-night Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in the capital, Kingston. The hotel describes itself as 'home to royalty,...

In this article: CPA, Labour, Kiribati, Jamaica, Democracy, Climate change, Jim Sheridan, and Neil Turner

...Amos, the Labour peer. Amos, the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet, is a former leader of the House of Lords and forged close relations with Annan and the UN while working at the Foreign Office. England's chances of a...

In this article: Kofi Annan, United Nations, 2018 World Cup, David Beckham, England, Labour, Baroness Amos, Tony Blair, London Olympics in 2012, and FIFA

...merely says: '1979: UK's first woman prime minister.' You're in: Harriet Harman's Labour colleagues Baroness Amos and Diane Abbott made the cut and got a mention in the document By contrast, the document names Labour peer Baroness...

In this article: Harriet Harman, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, SDP, Baroness Amos, Shirley Williams, Diane Abbott, House of Lords, and UK

...in Canberra in October. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Baroness Amos would bring energy, flair and experience to the job and he paid tribute to the work of Ms Liddell during her four year stint in Canberra. "Helen Liddell has done an...

In this article: Helen Liddell, Australia, Canberra, Labour, John Howard, Baroness Amos, Gordon Brown, London, House of Lords, and Scotland

The board will also consider whether to keep Labour peer Baroness Amos as one of the 2018 directors now that she is to take up her new role as British High Commissioner to Australia - one of England's World Cup bid rivals - this month.

In this article: England, Richard Caborn, FIFA, Baroness Amos, 2018 World Cup, World Cup, World Cup, Labour, and Gordon Brown