Liz Kendall

Elizabeth Louise Kendall (born 11 June 1971)[1]  is a British Labour Party politician who, selected from an all-women shortlist, has been the Member of Parliament for Leicester West since 2010.



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[hide]  *1 Early life and career  ==Early life and career[ edit] == Kendall grew up in the village of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Girls. She then went up to Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a first in history in 1993.
 * 2 Parliamentary career
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

Unsuccessful in an attempt to become the Labour candidate in Chesterfield for the 2001 general election,[3]  she has worked as Director of the Maternity Alliance charity, as a researcher for the King's Fund, as an associate director for health, social care and children’s early years at the IPPR and has been aspecial adviser to two cabinet ministers,[4]  Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman.[5] ==Parliamentary career[ edit] == On 26 May 2010 Kendall posted a picture of the previous day's state opening of parliament on the microblogging website Twitter, in contravention of parliamentary rules.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  She apologised, saying that she was unaware of the regulations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">She made her maiden speech in the debate "Tackling Poverty in the UK" on 10 June 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In 2011, she was made the Shadow Minister for Care and Older People by Ed Miliband, entitling her to attend meetings of the Shadow Cabinet, though not as a full member.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  On 12 February 2013 she gave a speech on health care reform at the National Health Service.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  On 18 October of the same year she promised to take action against 40 youths who were targeting a single family whose car they had burned twice.