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Glenys Kinnock: Former minister and wife of Neil Kinnock dies aged 79
Former Labour minister Glenys Kinnock, an ex-MEP and wife of ex-Labour leader Lord Kinnock, has died at 79, her family have said.
They praised her political work, saying Europe, Africa and the UN were the "three great passions of her life".
Her family said she had "endured Alzheimer's" since a 2017 diagnosis and faced it with "innate courage".
Gordon Brown made her a baroness in 2009 so she could serve as a Foreign Office minister in his cabinet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67606751