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Jane Kennedy (Jane Elizabeth Hodgson) was born on 4 May, 1958 in Whitehaven, United Kingdom, is a British Independent politician. Discover Jane Kennedy'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 65 years old?

Popular As Jane Elizabeth Hodgson
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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 4 May, 1958
Birthday 4 May
Birthplace Whitehaven, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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Her husband is Malcolm Kennedy (m. 1977)

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1958

Jane Elizabeth Kennedy ( Hodgson; born 4 May 1958) is a British politician and the inaugural Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner.

1976

She studied chemistry at the University of Liverpool from 1976 until 1978, however did not graduate from her studies, deciding to marry and settle with her family in Liverpool.

1977

Jane married Malcolm Kennedy in 1977 in Knowsley; they divorced in 1998.

1978

They have two sons, Robert (born 1978) and Alan (born 1983).

She currently lives with her partner Peter Dowling.

1979

She worked in social care for Liverpool City Council from 1979 to 1988, and in 1988 she became a trade union Area Organiser for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) until 1992.

In Liverpool she had been active in ending the Militant group's Infiltration of the Liverpool Labour Party.

1992

She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree, formerly Liverpool Broadgreen, from 1992 to 2010.

Kennedy had been a Member of Parliament since the 1992 general election, when she was elected for the Liverpool Broadgreen constituency.

She served as a member of the social security select committee from 1992 to 1994, and in 1995 she was appointed as a Labour whip.

1997

Her constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election, but she was returned to Parliament for the new Liverpool Wavertree constituency.

After Labour's victory in the 1997 election, she served as an assistant government whip until 1998 and as a government whip until 1999, sitting on the House of Commons administration select committee from 1997 until 1999.

1999

Kennedy was appointed as a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor's Department from 1999 until 2001, when she became a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office with responsibility for security and the justice system.

2002

After the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly in October 2002, she also became responsible for education and employment in the province.

2003

In 2003, she was made a Privy Councillor.

2004

She transferred to the Department for Work and Pensions in 2004 and then to the Department of Health after the 2005 general election, remaining a Minister of State.

2006

She left the government on 5 May 2006 during a wide-ranging reshuffle.

She was initially thought by journalists to have been sacked; however, she subsequently said she took the opportunity to resign from the government in light of concerns about the impact of the government's policies on the National Health Service.

In Gordon Brown's first government since becoming Prime Minister, Kennedy was appointed as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, becoming the third ranked minister in the Treasury, taking on the ministerial responsibilities of the old Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo.

2008

On 5 October 2008, Kennedy was promoted to Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with the portfolio of Farming and the Environment.

2009

Formerly a member of the Government, on 8 June 2009, she returned to the backbenches leaving her position as Minister of State for Farming and the Environment at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

On 9 November 2009 she announced she would be standing down at the 2010 general election.

She resigned that position in June 2009 in protest at Gordon Brown's Leadership.

In 2009 the Houses of Parliament started publishing MP expenses.

Her partner Peter Dowling worked at her office handling research and parliamentary affairs, and was paid out of her parliamentary expenses.

2010

It was announced in January 2010 the Wavertree Labour Party had picked Luciana Berger as the candidate to succeed her.

This selection caused some controversy because Berger had stayed at Kennedy's home for a period before the selection, a home Kennedy shares with her partner Peter Dowling, the local Labour Party's agent.

2012

Kennedy was elected to the post of Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner on 15 November 2012.

2016

She was re-elected in 2016.

2019

Originally a member of the Labour Party, she left the party in March 2019 after the resignation of her successor, Luciana Berger MP, and the announcement that former Liverpool City councillor Derek Hatton - a former member of the Militant tendency - had been re-admitted to party membership.

She was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland, and attended Haughton Comprehensive School (now part of the 'Education Village') on Rockwell Avenue in Haughton Le Skerne, then Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington.