Gwyneth Dunwoody

	Gwyneth has been member of the first European Parliament.

Member of Parliament
Labour Party
United Kingdom

Gwyneth (b. 1930) is the mother of a daughter and two sons, and has ten grandchildren.
Her family has always been political - both of her grandmothers were suffragettes, her father, Morgan Phillips became the General Secretary of the Labour Party, and her mother served as a minister in the House of Lords before being made the Lord Lieutenant of London.
She won her current seat in the British Parliament in 1974. Currently, Gwyneth is the Chair of the Transport Select Committee. In addition to this Gwyneth sits on the Liaison Committee (the committee of all select committee chairman). She has been opposition spokesman for foreign affairs and she was a member of the European Parliament(EP) from 1974-8. At that time the EP was newly established and its members were delegates from the national parliaments.
Currently she is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for a Social Europe.

Gwyneth has a wide variety of interests. She is Life President of the Labour Friends of Israel, and Vice President of Socialist International Women. When time permits she enjoys opera and theatre. She also has a collection of teddy bears.

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