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- Margaret_Beckett abstract "Dame Margaret Mary Beckett, DBE MP (born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party following Smith's sudden death. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, most notably becoming Britain's first ever female Foreign Secretary in 2006.Beckett was first elected to Parliament in 1974 for Lincoln and held junior positions in the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. She lost her seat in 1979, but returned to the House of Commons in 1983 this time representing Derby South. She was appointed to Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet shortly afterwards, ultimately being elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 1992, becoming the first woman ever to hold that role. Following the premature death of John Smith in 1994, she also technically became the first woman to lead the Labour Party, although Tony Blair won the election to replace Smith shortly afterwards to assume the substantive leadership.After Labour's victory in 1997, Beckett became a member of Tony Blair's Cabinet initially as the President of the Board of Trade. She was later the Leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, before in 2006 becoming Foreign Secretary, making her the first woman to hold that position, and—after Margaret Thatcher—the second woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State. After Blair resigned as Prime Minister in 2007, Beckett was not initially given a position by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown. After some time, Brown appointed her Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2008, before she left the government for the final time in 2009. She is currently the longest-serving female MP in the House of Commons, as well as being one of the longest-serving ministers in government history and one of the few remaining MPs who served in the Labour governments of the 1970s. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for public and political service.".
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- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsEndDate "2007-06-27".
- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsEndDate "2009-06-05".
- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "1992-07-18".
- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "1992-07-24".
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- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "1995-10-19".
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- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "2001-06-08".
- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "2006-05-05".
- Margaret_Beckett activeYearsStartDate "2008-10-03".
- Margaret_Beckett almaMater University_of_Manchester_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology.
- Margaret_Beckett birthDate "1943-01-15".
- Margaret_Beckett birthName "Margaret Mary Jackson".
- Margaret_Beckett birthPlace Ashton-under-Lyne.
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- Margaret_Beckett monarch Elizabeth_II.
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- Margaret_Beckett office "Minister of State for Housing and Planning".
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- Margaret_Beckett office "Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs".
- Margaret_Beckett office "Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs".
- Margaret_Beckett office "Shadow Leader of the House of Commons".
- Margaret_Beckett office "Shadow Secretary of State for Health".
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- Margaret_Beckett party Labour_Party_(UK).
- Margaret_Beckett primeMinister Gordon_Brown.
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- Margaret_Beckett primeMinister Tony_Blair.
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- Margaret_Beckett successor Michael_Heseltine.
- Margaret_Beckett successor Peter_Mandelson.
- Margaret_Beckett successor Robin_Cook.
- Margaret_Beckett successor Tony_Blair.
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- Margaret_Beckett birthDate "1943-01-15".
- Margaret_Beckett birthPlace "Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England".
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- Margaret_Beckett leader John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader).
- Margaret_Beckett leader Neil_Kinnock.
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- Margaret_Beckett monarch Elizabeth_II.
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