Fiona Mactaggart
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Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour member of Parliament for the Slough parliamentary constituency. She serves at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for Race Equality, Community Policy and Civil Renewal.
She was first elected to Parliament in 1997. She was a councillor and Leader of the Labour Group on Wandsworth Council from 1988 to 1990. She has been a primary school teacher and Chair of Liberty.
Her father, the late Sir Ian Mactaggart Bt, was a multimillionaire Glasgow property developer, Tory candidate and Europhobe. Her mother's father, Sir Herbert Williams Bt, was a Conservative Member of Parliament for 27 years. Her great-grandfather however was Sir John Mactaggart, the first treasurer of the first ever branch of Keir Hardie's Labour party.
External links
- Fiona Mactaggart (http://www.fionamactaggart.labour.co.uk/) official site
- Home Office - Fiona Mactaggart MP (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/inside/org/ministers/mactaggart.html) official biography
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Fiona Mactaggart MP (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-3291,00.html)
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Fiona Mactaggart MP (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/fiona_mactaggart/slough)