In 1994 Glenys Kinnock was elected Member of the European Parliament for South Wales East with a record 74% of the vote. She was then returned for Wales in 1999 as no.1 on the Labour regional list. Her husband, Neil Kinnock, is a former Labour party leader and now European Commissioner for Transport. With their Danish daughter-in-law Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who is also an MEP, the family has been described as a Kinnock "Euro-dynasty". Glenys Kinnock's father was a railwayman and union activist and she joined the Labour party aged 15. She was educated in Holyhead and at University College, Cardiff, where she met Neil as a student politician. A teacher for nearly thirty years, she specialised in language and reading and has written books on education, and about African countries. She has a long-standing interest in relations with the Third World. She has called for the West to cancel third world debt and appealed for tighter control of arms sales. An outspoken critic of the Burmese authorities, in 1996 she posed as a tourist to meet Aung Sang Suu Kyi the Burmese Opposition leader, and videotaped an interview with her.