A contemporary of Sir John Scarlett, the chief of SIS from 2004 to 2009, she was short-listed to succeed an earlier MI6 chief – Sir Colin McColl, though at that time, 1994, she lost out to Sir David Spedding, left the Service and moved into full-time politics.
She was foreign policy adviser to John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party from 1992–94, and was special adviser to Jack Cunningham, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1994–95.
Parliamentary career
She was made a life peer as Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, of Langside in the City of Glasgow on 11 October 1996.[2]
Between 1998 and 2001, Ramsay was Baroness in Waiting (Whip); Spokesperson of the Scottish Office; Spokesperson of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; and Spokesperson of Culture, Media and Sports; in the Lords. In 2002 she was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords a position she still holds (one Deputy Speaker from a panel of 20 to 25 Deputy Speakers preside over debates when the Lord Speaker is not present).[3][4]
^Staff United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Female Suffrage 1918/22), Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership 3 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 16 March 2009
^Staff. Deputy Speakers (House of Lords)[dead link], United Kingdom Parliament 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 13 January 2009
^Committee Membership - see section on previous committees 2005-2010.
^"LFI Supporters in Parliament". Labour Friends of Israel. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
^Ramsay, Baroness (24 October 2019). "Unlike Labour's toy-town revolutionaries, Ellman enhanced debate on Israel". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
August 22, 2023
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