Ann Clwyd Cause of Death

Popular UK politician, Ann Clwyd has been reported dead. According to sources, she died peacefully at her home in Cardiff on July 21, 2023, at the age of 86. She served as a Member of Parliament for Cynon Valley for 35 years from 1984 to 2019.

Born on March 21, 1937, Ann Clwyd started her career in the limelight when she started working for BBC Wales as a studio manager and then became a Welsh correspondent for Guardian and Observer newspapers during 1964-79.

She was persuaded to stand for Parliament by Huw T. Edwards, who felt that there should be more women in parliament. She was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Denbigh in 1970 and Gloucester in October 1974.

Clwyd was the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1984, for Mid and West Wales. She was elected to Parliament in a by-election in May 1984 following the death of Ioan Evans and became the first woman to sit for a Welsh valleys constituency.

She served as Shadow Minister of Education and Women’s Rights from 1987 but was sacked the following year for rebelling against the party whip on further spending on nuclear weapons. She returned as Shadow Minister for Overseas Development from 1989 to 1992, and then served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in 1992 and for National Heritage from 1992 to 1993.

Clwyd was a member of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service from 1976 to 1979. In 2003, she was chosen for a place to introduce a Private Member’s Bill via a ballot of MPs. She was also admitted to the White Robe of the Gorsedd of Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1991.