Sentence examples for she was mp from inspiring English sources

"Martin and I know each other extremely well, and Martin did apply for the seat I was eventually selected for in the Vale of York [where she was MP before Thirsk], but I would hope that we're friends and can rise above that kind of rivalry," is McIntosh's answer.

Shadow leader of the House of Lords Lady Smith, 56, peer since 2010 Better known to observers of the Blair and Brown years as Angela Smith, she was MP for Basildon from 1997 until defeat in 2010, after which she was made a peer and later Labour's deputy chief whip in the upper house.

She is MP for the marginal seat of Bolton West, where she had a majority of just 2,064 over Labour at the last election.

Smith was MP from 1972 to 1992.

She was an MP in a marginal constituency, the first ever Green MP, and the party's main face in the media.

Meanwhile, she was elected MP for Barking in 1994.

Before she was an MP, she worked at Women's Aid, the domestic violence charity.

Because she is a young, blonde woman, he couldn't believe she was an MP.

When she was elected MP for Peckham (now Camberwell and Peckham) in a 1982 byelection, she became one of only 10 female Labour MPs in parliament.

It was the Public Bodies (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Bill in 1960, a year after she was elected MP for Finchley.

In 2004, when she was an MP, she was sacked from the frontbench by then party leader Charles Kennedy after she suggested that she would become a suicide bomber if she was Palestinian.