Former UK Europe Minister Denis MacShane has led warm tributes to former MEP Glenys Kinnock, who has died at the age of 79.
Glenys Kinnock, who died on Sunday with Alzheimer’s disease, was an MEP for 15 years after being first elected for Wales South-east in 1994 with a record majority.In 2009 she was appointed minister for Europe by Gordon Brown, who also made her a life peer.
Neil & Glenys Kinnock.
She represented Wales as an MEP from 1994 until 2009 and was co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly from 2002-2009.
Her husband Neil was former leader of the UK Labour party and a former vice president of the EU commission.
