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Hazel Anne Blears (born 14 May 1956) is a British former Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) successively for the constituencies of Salford and Salford and Eccles between 1997 and 2015.
Nov 29, 2021 · Hazel Blears was chair of the Labour party and a minister without portfolio (2006–07) before becoming secretary of state for communities and local government (2007–09). She previously served as a junior health minister (2001–03) and junior Home Office minister (2003–06). She was the Labour MP for Salford (1997–2010).
Mar 21, 2009 · Hazel Blears' role model, whom she holds up as a real example of a political "character", is that fiery northern socialist Barbara Castle, who was the only woman in the Labour cabinet in the...
Jun 3, 2009 · Hazel Blears has become the second cabinet minister to resign in 24 hours. She is skipping PMQs and heading home to Salford this morning to spend more time with “her people” ahead of tomorrow ...
Feb 20, 2014 · Former government minister Hazel Blears is to step down at the next general election. The 57-year-old Labour MP, who was elected in 1997, informed her Salford and Eccles constituency members...
Labour's former minister Hazel Blears is to stand down as an MP at next year's general election.
Mar 12, 2007 · Interview: Hazel Blears. The woman in charge of the Labour Party now says she's a Brownite as well as a Blairite as she makes. By Martin Bright. On the mantelpiece in Hazel Blears’s House of Commons office, alongside the obligatory pictures of constituents visiting parliament, sits the following framed poem: I am not everybody. I am one.
