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Liz Kendall
Elizabeth Louise "Liz" Kendall (born 11 June 1971) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010. In 2011 she was appointed Shadow Minister for Care and Older People and invited to attend meetings of the Shadow Cabinet. On 10 May 2015, Kendall announced she would stand to be Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election initiated following the resignation of Ed Miliband. On 12 September, the results were announced with Kendall in fourth place.
==Early life and career==
Kendall was born and brought up in the village of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire near Watford. Her father left school at 16 and worked his way up to become a senior Bank of England official, and her mother was a junior school teacher. Her father was also a local Liberal councillor and her parents got her involved in local campaigns as a child. Both her parents are now active supporters of the Labour Party. She attended Watford Grammar School for Girls where she was Head Girl and a contemporary of Geri Halliwell and the Conservative cabinet minister Priti Patel. She then read History at Queens' College, Cambridge, where she captained the ladies' football team, and graduated with a first in 1993.
Kendall joined the Labour Party in 1992, and after leaving university worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)〔 where she became an associate director for health, social care and children’s early years. In 1996, she became a political adviser for Harriet Harman, and her special adviser in the Department for Social Security after the 1997 election.〔 In 1998, when Harman was sacked from the government, Kendall resigned and was awarded a fellowship of the King's Fund, a health charity. She also wrote a series of research papers for the IPPR and was appointed as the Director of the Maternity Alliance, a charity for expectant mothers.〔 She was unsuccessful in an attempt to be selected as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Chesterfield for the 2001 general election.
In 2001, she returned to government to work for Patricia Hewitt, at the Department for Trade and Industry, and then followed her to the Department for Health where she was involved in bringing in the smoking ban in 2006.〔 After Hewitt left government, Kendall became the Director of the Ambulance Services Network, where she remained until 2010.〔(Biography page ) Liz Kendall's website〕
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