Talk:Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

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This needs to be merged with Baroness Amos, which came first but has the wrong title (oops, my fault). I think the opening para is better in the other (but I would say that, as I wrote it). --rbrwr

Does this not violate Crown Copyright - http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page7.asp. -- Emsworth 02:30, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

Tim Starling considered it "similar but sufficiently different to press release" on 7 June 2003; I accepted this without checking. It is clearly very similar. A version started by me, which is shorter and more thoroughly rewritten (though still based on the same source) can be found in the history of Baroness Amos. --rbrwrˆ

Why the hell does this article go chronologically backwards? Someone wikify it. (I'd reorder it right now but I don't have the time.) --84.68.200.235 23:27, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why was she created a life peer?

The article does not say why she was made a life peer. If anyone knows, please add it to the article. PainMan 22:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know either, but would really like to as well - was it because of her unstinting loyalty to Mr. Blair?

[edit] MP

I can find anything about her standing as an MP. Can someone provide a source that she has never stood?Dmanning 00:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


I was going to post on the "citation needed" lable, but then saw your comment here.
It's a bit difficult to prove a negative. Unless (for example), she has written an autobiography and states that she has never stood, I wonder whether this is a statement which is capable of being supported by citation. If she has not stood, she has not stood. Absent giving a list of everyone who has ever stood, there is not much way of addressing this one. Informed Owl (talk) 22:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)Informed Owl

[edit] Head Girl Lesley Hodgkiss

In the section mentioning Baroness Amos being the first deputy head girl at her school, why is this followed in brackets with "(Head Girl - Lesley Hodgkiss)"? Pardon my ignorance, but is Lesley Hodgkiss famous in her own right? She has no Wikipedia page. I think this mention of Lesley Hodgkiss should be removed - it looks like the sort of thing only Lesley Hodgkiss herself would have inserted... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.172.98 (talk) 17:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)