Jane Elizabeth Kennedy PC is a British Labour Party politician and the inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside. Kennedy was the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Broadgreen from 1992 until 1997 and for Liverpool Wavertree from 1997 until she stood down in 2010.
She was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, and attended Haughton Comprehensive School on Rockwell Avenue in Haughton Le Skerne, then Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington. She studied Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. She worked in social care for Liverpool City Council from 197988 when she became a trade union organiser for the National Union of Public Employees . In Liverpool she had been active in ending the Militant groups infiltration of the Liverpool Labour Party.
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