Hazel Blears
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Hazel Anne Blears is a British former Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament successively for the constituencies of Salford and Salford and Eccles between 1997 and 2015.
Official portrait, 2007
Blears in 2013
Blears in June 2009
Ruth Kelly
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Ruth Maria Kelly is a Northern Irish lobbyist and former politician and government minister currently serving as the chair of Water UK, the trade association representing all of the water and wastewat
Hazel Blears
…McCartney. On 28 June 2007, the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Blears as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, replacing Ruth Kelly. In April 2008, it was rumoured that Brown was planning a summer reshuffle in which Blears would be demoted. However, when the reshuffle occurred in…
Official portrait, c. 2004–05