Margaret Beckett
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Female
birthday
1943-01-15
place-of-birth
Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, UK
also-known-as
biography
Dame Margaret Mary Beckett DBE is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith from 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly.