Margaret Beckett Margaret Beckett Dame Margaret Mary Beckett (; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith from 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, becoming Britain's first female Foreign Secretary in 2006. Beckett was first elected to Parliament in 1974 for Lincoln and held junior positions in the governments
Labour First party, originally associated with New Labour. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum in the Labour Party have seen Progress and Labour First, while remaining distinct organisations with distinctive traditions, carry out more joint activities, including joint endorsement of moderate candidates in internal party elections. Labour First Labour First is a British political organisation associated with the British Labour Party, founded in 1988. Born out of Labour's struggles with, and eventual expulsion of the Trotskyist entryist Militant organisation, it sees itself as protecting the tradition of the "old Labour Right", a historic alignment of anti-communist trade unions (e.g. the former