Ann Clwyd: Former Labour MP for Cynon Valley dies
World 01:38 PM - 2023-07-22Ann Clwyd
Former Labour MP Ann Clwyd has died at the age of 86, BBC reported on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
She represented the Cynon Valley constituency for 35 years and became the oldest woman to sit in the House of Commons before standing down in 2019.
The former BBC journalist served as an MEP before she was first elected as an MP in a 1984 by-election. She held many political posts including shadow secretary of state for Wales and chairwoman of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
She was Tony Blair's special envoy in Iraq and she campaigned on the NHS following the death of her husband Owen Roberts in 2012.
Clwyd was a pro Kurdish rights and known among the Kurds as the woman who helped in establishing the no fly zone above the Kurdistan Region following the 1991 Kurdish uprising which later helped in forming the Kurdistan Regional Government.
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