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Other notable alumni include Margaret Beckett, a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary.

* January 15 – Margaret Beckett, British politician

In the 2006 reshuffle, Margaret Beckett became the first ( and only ) woman to hold the post.

In February 2007 he entered the news after it emerged that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating Gordon Brown, with her revealing " embarrassing indiscretions ".

She supported John Prescott in the Labour deputy-leadership election in 1988 ( against Eric Heffer and the incumbent Roy Hattersley ), leaving the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett, as a result of Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the leadership.

She supported Margaret Beckett for the Labour leadership in 1994 against Tony Blair and John Prescott.

Tony Blair became the leader of the Labour Party in 1994, after winning 57 % of the vote in that year's leadership election, defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett.

Margaret Mary Beckett ( née Jackson ; born 15 January 1943 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death.

After Blair resigned as Prime Minister in 2007, Margaret Beckett was not reappointed to the Cabinet.

Margaret Beckett was born Margaret Jackson in 1943, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire into a working-class family.

Out of Parliament, and now Margaret Beckett, she was elected to Labour's National Executive Committee in 1980, and supported left-winger Tony Benn in the 1981 Labour deputy leadership election won by Denis Healey.

Returning to the House of Commons, Margaret Beckett gradually moved away from the hard left, supporting incumbent leader Neil Kinnock against Benn in 1988.

Following the sudden death of John Smith from a heart attack on 12 May 1994, Margaret Beckett became Labour leader, the Party's constitution providing for the automatic succession of the deputy leader for the remainder of the leadership term, upon the death or resignation of an incumbent leader in opposition.

Under Tony Blair's leadership, Margaret Beckett was the Shadow Secretary of State for Health, and then from 1995 the shadow President of the Board of Trade.

The Labour party won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election and despite her connections to the old left of the party and the trade union movement, with which Tony Blair has an uneasy relationship, Margaret Beckett held a number of important positions in the Blair government.

Following the 2006 local elections, Tony Blair demoted Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and appointed Margaret Beckett as his successor.

Margaret Beckett had to adapt quickly to her diplomatic role and within a few hours of her appointment as Foreign Secretary she flew to the United Nations in New York for an urgent meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the Iran nuclear weapons crisis.

Upon taking office, Gordon Brown made it known that Margaret Beckett would not continue as Foreign Secretary.

* Day in the Life: Margaret Beckett, Bridget Kendall, BBC News, 10 February 2007

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