Glenda Jackson won international acclaim for her work in the theatre, on television and film, and was awarded two Academy Awards (Oscars) for Women in Love and A Touch of Class. Glenda was elected MP for Hampstead and Highgate in 1992. She has long-standing commitments to Shelter and Oxfam, visiting Ethiopia in 1985 on the latter’s behalf. In 1992 she helped to organise the ‘Women Into Parliament Week’ and is one of the founding members of the All-Party Group on Breast Cancer. In 1978 Glenda was made a CBE.

Since her election to Parliament, Glenda has served on several of the Committees debating major pieces of Government legislation. Glenda has made speeches on a number of subjects including Sex Discrimination, Overseas Aid and Development, the situation of women in Britain today, Women and Equal Opportunities and the Commonwealth. Glenda’s special political interests are aid and development, housing and transport and until April 1997 she was on the Shadow Transport Team. Glenda now concentrates on her political and constituency interests in Westminster.

Glenda is a full-time MP because, “You can’t be a part-time MP anymore than you can be a part-time actress!”