Ann Keen

Ann Keen
Keen as a health minister
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services
In office
28 June 2007 – 6 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byGisela Stuart (2001)
Succeeded byThe Earl Howe
Parliamentary Private Secretary
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
10 January 2001 – 28 June 2007
Alongside John Healey to June 2001
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byJohn Healey
Succeeded byAnn Coffey
Member of Parliament
for Brentford and Isleworth
In office
1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Preceded byNirj Deva
Succeeded byMary Macleod
Personal details
Born
Ann Lloyd Fox

(1948-11-26) 26 November 1948 (age 76)
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Political partyLabour
SpouseAlan Keen
RelationsSylvia Heal (sister)
Children2 sons, 1 daughter
Residence(s)Brentford and Waterloo
Alma materUniversity of Surrey
ProfessionNursing

Ann Lloyd Keen (née Fox; born 26 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth from 1997, until she was defeated by Conservative candidate Mary Macleod in 2010. In 1999, The Guardian newspaper revealed that she had acted as a "secret go-between" for the Labour Party and Shaun Woodward, at the time the MP for Witney, as he attempted to defect from the Conservative Party in the same year.[1]

  1. ^ Top Tory defects to Labour. Publisher: The Guardian. Published: 19 December 1999. Retrieved: 12 April 2012.