Ann Widdecombe, the former Tory minister, has died
Ann Widdecombe, the former minister, MP and MEP, has died aged 78, her representative says.
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Former MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe dies aged 78
The former minister, MP and MEP Ann Widdecombe has died aged 78.
A long-time Conservative politician, she later joined the Brexit Party in 2019, which then became Reform UK.
She also gained public attention for her time on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
Widdecombe was born in 1947 and entered parliament in 1987 representing the seat of Maidstone in Kent.
She had previously served as a councillor and worked for the Conservative Party.
Under John Major she was an employment minister and then prisons minister.
Widdecombe stood down from parliament in 2010, as the Tories returned to government.
She then re-entered politics in 2019 as a Brexit Party MEP.
In the 2019 general election, she stood again for Westminster in the seat of Plymouth Sutton and Devonport for Nigel Farage's party, but she finished a distant third behind the Tories and Labour.
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