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Daphne Barbara Follett (née Hubbard, born 25 December 1942) was the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Stevenage from 1997 until 2010. During this time she held several parliamentary and, despite having voted 19 times against her own government, ministerial positions. In the decade before entering Parliament she played a major part in transformation of the Labour Party. Firstly, by making members more aware of their visual impact on voters and secondly by co-founding and running two organisations, Labour Women's Network and Emily's List UK, which spearheaded reforms that helped Labour to return a record number of 101 women to Parliament in 1997. Follett was a notable case in the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal. She stood down in 2010 in order to take over the running of her husband, bestselling author Ken Follett's, growing business.〔http://www.barbara-follett.org.uk/home/index.html〕 ==Background== She was born Daphne Barbara Hubbard in Kingston, Jamaica, where her father (originally from Manchester, UK) was an insurance executive. In 1946 the family returned to Britain, first to Jersey then in 1947 to Billericay, Essex. In 1952 the family moved to Ethiopia where her father set up the country’s first insurance company in partnership with Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barbara Follett official biography )〕 the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa. She began a University degree in Art, but in 1962 had to give it up and started work with Barclays Bank. She married Richard Turner in 1963 and they moved to Paris where Turner studied for his doctorate and she taught at the Berlitz School of Languages (1963–64). In 1964 her first daughter, Jann, was born. They returned to South Africa in 1966 to run his mother's fruit farm in Stellenbosch, where they had their second daughter, Kim. In 1969, after experiencing first-hand the hardships of life for farm workers in rural South Africa, she started working for Kupugani (Zulu for "uplift yourself"), an organisation that provided cheap food for the poor which bought and processed agricultural surplus and then sold it cheaply to poor families. It also provided basic health and education. In 1970, on the breakdown of her marriage Follett moved back to Cape Town and became acting Regional Secretary at the Institute of Race Relations. She worked again for Kupugani from 1971 to 1978, first as Regional Manager for the Cape and South-West Africa (now Namibia) – then as National Health Education Director (1975–78). After a brief marriage to Gerald Stonestreet, she married architect Les Broer in 1974. Their son Adam was born in 1975. In January 1978 her ex-husband Richard Turner, a prominent anti-apartheid activist, was assassinated.〔http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/anti-apartheid-activist-dr-richard-turner-assassinated〕 Three months later, Barbara, who was then running the Women’s Movement for Peace was told that she too was about to be "banned". She and her children fled to England and lived in Farnham, Surrey. Barbara found work as Assistant Course Organiser and lecturer on Africa for the Farnham-based Centre for International Briefing (1980–84) and joined the local Labour Party.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Follett (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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