The Baroness Foster of Oxton | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 29 January 2021 Life peerage | |
| Deputy Leader of the Conservative MEPs in the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 November 2013 – 1 July 2019 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for North West England | |
| In office 4 June 2009 – 1 July 2019[1][2] | |
| Preceded by | David Sumberg |
| Succeeded by | Chris Davies |
| In office 10 June 1999 – 10 June 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Sajjad Karim |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jacqueline Renshaw 30 December 1947 Liverpool, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
Jacqueline Foster, Baroness Foster of Oxton, DBE (née Renshaw, born 30 December 1947) is a British Conservative politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
In October 2019 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In January 2021, she was appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords as Baroness Foster of Oxton, of Oxton in the County of Merseyside.[3][4]
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