Clare Short

The Right Honourable Clare Short (born February 15, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician. She is a cousin of Canadian-American actor/comic Martin Short, whose parents were emigrants from Northern Ireland. She is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, and was Secretary of State for International Development from May 2, 1997 until her resignation on May 12, 2003.

DFID

After the 1997 UK general election the Overseas Development Administration was given full departmental status as the Department for International Development, with Short as the first cabinet-level Secretary of State for International Development. She retained this post throughout the first term of the Labour government, and beyond the 2001 UK general election into the second.

Related Topics:
1997 UK general election - Department for International Development - Cabinet-level - 2001 UK general election

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