Angela Eagle, the Labour MP for Wallasey
Angela Eagle, the MP for Wallasey, has been given a damehood in the New Year Honours list.
Ms Eagle, who has represented the Wirral constituency for Labour since 1992, is known for her work promoting women’s and minority rights and has been made a dame for parliamentary and political service.
Now a Labour MP of over 28 years service, Ms Eagle first joined the party aged 17 in 1978.
She entered politics through the trade union route, working for the health workers body CoHSE (now Unison) after leaving university.
Within Labour, she was elected to the party’s National Women’s Conference in 1989 and chaired the National Conference of Labour Women in 1991.