Fiona Mactaggart

Quick Facts

Full Name	Fiona Mactaggart
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 12, 1953(1953-09-12)
Age	71
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Fiona Mactaggart Biography

Fiona Mactaggart is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 12, 1953 in London, England, United Kingdom. Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician and an ex-primary school teacher. The MP was elected as the member of parliament (MP) in Slough until the 1997 general election to the time she stepped down in the 2017 general election.

Mactaggart was elected Labour MEP for Slough in 1997. She was picked to stand for election as Labour by a shortlist of all women.

From May 2003, until Mactaggart asked to leave her post in the 5 May 2006 Cabinet reshuffle, she served at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State with responsibility for Criminal Justice, Race Equality and Communities and then Offender Management.

In November 2008, Mactaggart attracted criticism for using unreliable statistics during as parliamentary that were not fully supported by evidence when discussing the issue of prostitution. Mactaggart was asked how those criminalised by a new law were supposed to know if a prostitute had been trafficked or not. She replied “I think they can guess”, “something like 80% of women in prostitution are controlled by their drug dealer, their pimp, or their trafficker.” When questioned on her claim she stated that it “came from an official Government publication into prostitution and the sex trade”. However, a BBC magazine article states that “it is impossible to find that number in any research done on this subject.” The Home Office have also stated that they “do not endorse or use the figure that 80 per cent of prostitutes are controlled by others”. The controversy continued in January 2009 with MacTaggart told the House of Commons that she regarded all women prostitutes as the victims of trafficking, because their route into the sector “almost always involves coercion, enforced addiction to drugs and violence from their pimps or traffickers.” Again this claim is not supported by any known research.

Mactaggart has three houses, one in London and one located on Islay, one on the Isle of Islay and a home in Slough. Mactaggart suffers from MS and is a survivor of ovarian cancer. Her sister was a political candidate in the Parliament of the Liberal Democrats in Devizes in the 1992 General Election.

Fiona Mactaggart Net Worth

Fiona Mactaggart is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Fiona Mactaggart 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mactaggart was Vice-President as well as National Secretary of The National Union of Students from 1978 until 1981. She was the Press and Public Relations Manager at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for six months prior to becoming Director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants from 1982 until 1987. She taught in the primary school at Peckham from 1987 until 1992 and noted that “I have a voice that children can hear at the other end of the playground”.

Mactaggart served as a councillor and leader of the Labour Group on Wandsworth Council from 1988 until 1990. Between 1992 and 1997 Mactaggart was an instructor at primary education in the Institute of Education and Chair of Liberty, the civil rights pressure group. When she was a primary school teacher she made the choice to join the MP ranks, since the possibility of changing things in the society “thirty kids at a time” was too fast for her. She is feminist.

In 2004, Mactaggart attracted criticism for a reluctance to condemn violent protests by Sikhs which led to the cancellation of the play Behzti at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Around a thousand protesters stormed the production, set in a temple, at the opening of the curtain. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, MacTaggart said: “I think that when people are moved by theatre to protest, in a way that’s a sign of the free speech which is so much part of the British tradition. I think that it’s a great thing that people care enough about a performance to protest”. Mactaggart also suggested the play and its author would benefit from the violent protests, adding that the controversy was “a sign of a lively flourishing cultural life”.

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Fiona Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Fiona Mactaggart celebrates birthday on September 12 of every year.