Patsy Calton

Liberal Democrat MP Cheadle

Date of birth

19 September 1948

Political profile

Patsy Calton won Cheadle from the Conservatives by a whisker at the 2001 election, after also standing there at the two previous elections.

Soon after her election, she was appointed a junior Liberal Democrat spokesman on Northern Ireland and has subsequently become a junior health spokesman.

She was educated at UMIST, she taught chemistry and served as a governor at local schools for 30 years.

She has served on Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, where she was deputy leader with responsibility for social services.

She successfully recovered from breast cancer and has run two marathons to raise awareness and money for cancer charities.

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