The Baroness Wheeler | |
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Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the King's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard | |
Assumed office 10 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | The Earl of Courtown |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 14 July 2010 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 March 1949 | (age 75)
Political party | Labour |
Margaret Eileen Joyce Wheeler, Baroness Wheeler MBE (born 25 March 1949) is a British Labour member of the House of Lords serving as the Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords since 2024.[1]
In the 2005 Birthday Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Trade Unions.[2]
She was created a life peer on 20 June 2010 taking the title Baroness Wheeler, of Blackfriars in the City of London,[3] and was introduced in the Lords on 14 July 2010.