Margaret Beckett
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Margaret Mary Beckett, Baroness Beckett is a British politician who was the United Kingdom's first female Foreign Secretary and a member of Parliament for more than 45 years, first from 1974 to 1979 a
Official portrait, 2020
Beckett appears with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, following her appointment as Foreign Secretary
John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament for Monklands East.
Margaret Beckett
…Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1992 to 1994, and briefly Leader of the Opposition and acting Leader of the Labour Party following John Smith's death in 1994. A member of the Labour Party, she served as MP for Lincoln from 1974 to 1979, and for Derby South from 1983 to 2024. Her 45 years in…
Smith in 1989
Smith's birthplace in Dalmally, Glenorchy
Gravestone of Smith on the island of Iona, Scotland. The epitaph is from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.