Background
The daughter of Ness Edwards Member of Parliament, she was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1986 to 2001, having replaced her husband John Golding.
The daughter of Ness Edwards Member of Parliament, she was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1986 to 2001, having replaced her husband John Golding.
She qualified as a radiographer and worked in the National Health Service and currently serves as Patron of the Society of Radiographers. After stepping down at the 2001 general election she was created a Life peer as Baroness Golding, of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire in the same year. Baroness Golding was the peer who vouched for the two "Fathers for Justice" protesters who threw a flour bomb at Prime Minister Tony Blair during Prime Minister"s Questions on 19 May 2004.
By vouching for them, Golding made it possible for the pair to access an area of the Commons viewing gallery not behind a glass security screen.
There is no suggestion that she had any idea of their protest plans. Later the same afternoon, she apologised to the Houses of Lords and Commons for her part in the affair.
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She is a board member of the Countryside Alliance, a pro-hunting organisation.