About Ruth Kelly
Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a Northern Irish lobbyist and former politician and government minister currently serving as the chair of Water UK, the trade association representing all of the water and wastewater companies of the United Kingdom. She was previously a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1997 to 2010. During her time in post, she served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's governments as the Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Minister for Women and Equality and Secretary of State for Education and Skills. Her paternal grandfather Francis (Frank) Kelly joined the Connaught Rangers and served in France during the First World War. In the 1997 general election, Kelly gained the seat of Bolton West from the Conservatives while heavily pregnant, and gave birth to her first son eleven days later. She then undertook postgraduate study at the London School of Economics, where she was awarded a MSc degree in economics in 1992.
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