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Helen Liddell was born on 6 December, 1950 in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a British Labour Party politician. Discover Helen Liddell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 6 December, 1950
Birthday 6 December
Birthplace Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom

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Her husband is Alistair Handerson Liddell (m. 1972)

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Helen Liddell Net Worth

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1950

Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC (' Reilly'''; born 6 December 1950) is a British politician and life peer who served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003 and British High Commissioner to Australia from 2005 to 2009.

1972

She married Alistair Liddell in 1972; they have one son and one daughter.

1974

She first contested the Parliamentary constituency of East Fife at the October 1974 general election.

1976

Liddell worked as a BBC Scotland economics journalist from 1976 to 1977.

1977

At the age of 26, she served as the first female General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party from 1977 to 1988.

She was subsequently public affairs director of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, working for media proprietor Robert Maxwell.

1994

A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts, previously Monklands East, from 1994 to 2005.

Liddell was born to Hugh Reilly, a Catholic, and Bridget Lawrie Reilly, a Protestant.

She was educated at St. Patrick's Catholic High School in Coatbridge, attending at the same time as John Reid, and graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a BA in Economics.

Liddell was first elected to Parliament in 1994, at the closely contested Monklands East by-election following John Smith's death.

1998

She was appointed a Privy Councillor on 27 October 1998.

2001

She was Secretary of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2003, a position whose powers had been transferred to the Scottish Executive after devolution in 1999.

In addition, she angered the monks of Buckfast Abbey when she called on them to stop selling Buckfast in Scotland.

She was dubbed Minister for Monarch of the Glen after several visits to the set of the hit BBC series.

The disclosure that she was able to work French lessons into her ministerial diary, raised questions about the relevance of Scottish Secretary's job post-devolution.

2003

The role was abolished as a full-time position in 2003, when the Scotland Office was rolled into the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

2005

She took up appointment as British High Commissioner to Australia in the summer of 2005, and was succeeded in the role by Baroness Amos in October 2009.

2010

On 28 May 2010, it was announced in the Dissolution Honours List that she would be created a life peer.

On 7 July, she took the title Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, of Airdrie in the County of Lanarkshire, six days later becoming a House of Lords member.

She is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

In 2010–11 Liddell was a member of the independent Philips inquiry into the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre, established by the Secretary of State for Defence.

2017

Appointed Director of Annington Limited, 1 April 2017.

The British Ministry of Defence, as of November 2022, are trying to regain ownership of the housing stock that was sold off to Annington in 1996.

As Chair of Annington, Baroness Liddell defended Annington via a letter to the British Defence Secretary saying she was "shocked" by the Government's approach.