Hazel Blears

Hazel Anne Blears is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Salford and Eccles from 2010 to 2015, when she stood down, and was previously the MP for Salford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Chair between 2006 and 2007, and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2007 to 2009, when she resigned. Commenting on the announcement, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Blears had made an outstanding contribution to public life even after refusing to pay back expenses which were claimed in breach of Parliamentary rules.

Hazel Blears was born in Salford, Lancashire on 14160May 1956, the daughter of a maintenance fitter. As a young child, Hazel and her brother Stephen both played street urchins in the film A Taste of Honey which was filmed in Salford in 1961, when Blears was aged five.

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