Hazel Blears

Labour MP Salford

Date of birth

14 May 1956

Political profile

Hazel Blears was first elected for the safe Labour seat of Salford in 1997.

She had a background of campaigning and membership of a wide variety of left and libertarian pressure groups.

A local authority legal adviser, she was on the left of the party and for longer than many of her parliamentary colleagues she opposed the revision of Clause IV.

Her parliamentary activism was mainly based around constituency issues, especially crime and inner city deprivation.

Her transformation to party loyalist was completed when she became parliamentary private secretary to Alan Milburn when the previous incumbent resigned over cuts in lone parent benefits.

Her work was rewarded by appointment as a junior health minister after the 2001 election.

In the June 2003 reshuffle she was promoted again, becoming minister of state at the Home Office.

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