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    A Problem Like Maria: A Woman's Eye View of Life as an MP

    By Maria Fyfe

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    Maria Fyfe's political memoir tells the story of fourteen years in office from the point of view of an MP who did not always toe the party line. Here, she recounts some of the most significant moments of her political career, from the frustrating and infuriating to the rewarding, up until the bittersweet ending of her time in parliament in 2001.  From years in Opposition to New Labour and devolution, A Problem Like Maria concerns some of the most turbulent years of political history.
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    PublisherLuath Press Ltd
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781909912885
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    A Problem Like Maria: A Woman's Eye View of Life as an MP
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    Maria Fyfe

    Maria Fyfe was born in 1938 in the Gorbals. During the Second World War she was evacuated to Ireland. On return to Scotland her family moved around and finally settled in Pollok, Glasgow, where she remained until her marriage to Jim Fyfe. She now has two sons, Stephen and Chris, and four grandchildren, Catriona, Jacob, Max and Peter. Maria worked in various roles in the secretarial and education sectors before her political career, gaining a 2:1 in Economic History as a mature student and awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Glasgow University for her work for women. She joined the Labour Party in 1960, where (after a ‘wasted year’ in Jim Sillars’ Scottish Labour Party) she has remained ever since. Maria was a Glasgow District Councillor from 1980 to 1987 and them Glasgow Maryhill’s mp from 1987 until she retired in 2001. Since retirement, Maria has remained politically active, most recently in the successful Mary Barbour campaign.

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