About Karen Buck
Dame Karen Patricia Buck (born 30 August 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North, and previously Regent's Park and Kensington North, from 1997 to 2024. She also served on Westminster City Council from 1990 to 1997. As of 2025, she chairs the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC). == Early life == Born in Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in 1958, Buck was educated at the Chelmsford County High School for Girls and the London School of Economics, from where she was awarded a BSc and an MSc in Economics, and an MA in Social Policy and Administration. Buck was briefly a Young Liberal. == Career == Buck joined the Labour Party in 1978. The following year, she became a research and development worker with Outset, a charity working with disabled people, before joining Hackney London Borough Council in 1983, initially working for them as a senior disability officer, and from 1986 as a public health officer. Buck first ran for election in the 1982 Barnet London Borough Council election, aged 23, as one of the three unsuccessful Labour candidates in the borough's Mill Hill ward (based around the area of that name). In 1986 she stood in Westminster City Council's Cavendish ward, an area straddling Marylebone and the West End of London. Despite the large increase in the Labour vote, all three seats were narrowly retained by the Conservatives, in a tightly contested election which saw Labour come close to winning the council.
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