Teresa Jane Kingham is a Labour Party United Kingdom politician.
Education
Kingham was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, and gained a Bachelor from Royal Holloway, University of London, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of East Anglia and a Master"s degree in Egyptian Archaeology from University College London. She is currently studying for a Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Anthropology at the University of Kent.
Career
She ran as the Labour candidate for the European Parliament seat of the Cotswolds in 1994, but lost to the long-serving Conservative incumbent Member of the European Parliament, Lord Henry Plumb, however she succeeded in cutting Plumb"s majority from 45,678 in 1989 to just 4,268 at that election. Kingham was elected as Member of Parliament for Gloucester in 1997, but retired from Parliament in disillusionment after one term, having complained publicly about the antiquated ways of working in the Palace of Westminster. While in Parliament Kingham successfully campaigned to change laws to protect firefighters and to get a nationwide cystic fibrosis screening programme for newborn babies.
Kingham is married to Mark Luetchford, a civil servant, trustee of War on Want and author of "Waging the War on Want", the official history of the organisation.
They have three children.
Membership
52nd United Kingdom Parliament]
She was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Gloucester from 1997 to 2001. She later expressed dissatisfaction with the old boys network in the House of Commons, accusing various members of "endlessly thrusting their groins around the Chamber in mock combat" and "indulging in yah-boo nonsense, point-scoring and silly games". She was a Member of the International Development Select Committee.