Dawn Primarolo
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The Right Honourable Dawn Primarolo (born May 2, 1954) is a British Member of Parliament for Bristol South. She is a member of the Labour Party and has been Paymaster General since 1999; she was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
She was first elected to Parliament at the 1987 general election, after her constituency party de-selected the sitting MP Michael Cocks. At the time she was regarded as a left-winger and is still often sarcastically referred to by Private Eye magazine as "Red Dawn", but is now a New Labour loyalist. She is a former member of Avon County Council.
External links
- Dawn Primarolo (http://www.dawnprimarolo.labour.co.uk/) official site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Dawn Primarolo MP (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-4266,00.html)
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Dawn Primarolo MP (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/dawn_primarolo/bristol_south)
| Preceded by: Michael Jack | Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1997–1999 | Succeeded by: Barbara Roche |