Lorraine Barrett

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Lorraine Barrett (b. 18 March 1950) is Labour Co-operative Member of the Welsh Assembly for Cardiff South and Penarth.

Barrett was born in Ynyshir, Rhondda to Rosina and Donald Booth, a retired coalminer, and went to Porth County School for Girls.

She was a nurse and a Councillor in the Vale of Glamorgan and Penarth Town Council and worked as an assistant to the current Cardiff South and Penarth Member of Parliament, Alun Michael from 1987-99. She was a member of the Welsh Labour executive and the National Policy Forum.

Barrett is a member of the Transport & General Workers Union and chairs the Co-operative Party Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Animal Welfare within the Assembly. She is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

She married Paul "Legs" Barrett, the well known mamnager of rock'n'roll acts, in 1972 and has a son (Lincoln Barrett also known as drum and bass DJ High Contrast) and a daughter who is called Shelley, she has appeared in many television programmes.