Background
Her father, Joseph Ludford, sent her to the independent Portsmouth High School, before she went up to the London School of Economics, graduating as Bachelor of Science and Master of Science .
Her father, Joseph Ludford, sent her to the independent Portsmouth High School, before she went up to the London School of Economics, graduating as Bachelor of Science and Master of Science .
London School of Economics.
She subsequently qualified as a barrister, joining Gray"s Inn in 1979. Ludford was created a Life Peer as Baroness Ludford, of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 30 September 1997, after serving as a Councillor for the London Borough of Islington 1991-1999. She was elected Member of the European Parliament for London at the European Parliament election in 1999 and returned in 2004 and 2009, before losing her seat in 2014.
A 2008-rule change by the European Parliament, prevented Ludford (like other Eurodeputies) from taking her seat in the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Parliament due to her re-election to the European Parliament in the 2009 election.
In October 2008, the European Parliament"s rules changed precluding MEPs from the right to sit and vote in any member-state"s national parliament, thus enforcing their suspension. This satisfied the new European Parliament rules and hence, Baroness Ludford, the only British parliamentarian to whom this applied at the time, was not allowed to vote in the Lords while serving as an Member of the European Parliament.
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She remains Vice President of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats, and a member of the Liberal Democrat groups Friends of Israel and Friends of Turkey.
She served as a LibDem Member of the European Parliament (Member of the European Parliament) for London from 1999 until 2014.
