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Ruth Kelly Biography

Ruth Kelly is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 9, 1968 in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. British Labour Party politician and economist, who was a member of Parliament in Bolton West. He also served as Economic Secretary to Treasury and Financial Secretary the Treasury.

Many of her governmental positions were held under the prime ministerial regime of fellow Labour Party politician She held many of her governmental positions under the prime ministerial administration of fellow Labour Party politician Tony Blair..

Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a former British Labour Party politician, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010. Previously, she served as the Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Minister for Women and Equality and Secretary of State for Education and Skills, serving under both Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

There was further controversy when it transpired that another teacher had been cleared to work at a school, despite the fact that he had been convicted in 1980 for indecent assault on a 15-year-old girl and had been previously removed from three schools. A letter from the Department for Education that suggested the Secretary of State had considered his case and found that although his past actions had been unwise and unacceptable, he had undertaken teaching work to good effect since.

She spent her early years in Limavady in Northern Ireland and most of her childhood in England. She is the grand-daughter of Irish War of Independence fighter Philip Murphy, and the wife of Derek John Gadd. She is also the mother of four kids.

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In the 1997 general election, Kelly gained the seat of Bolton West from the Conservatives while heavily pregnant, and gave birth to her first son eleven days later. She gained her place in parliament as Tony Blair became Prime Minister with Labour’s landslide election victory.

Ruth Kelly Net Worth

Ruth Kelly is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ruth Kelly's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She received a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Queen’s College, Oxford University. Then she went on to receive her master’s degree at the London School of Economics.

Before she became a politician, she was a Bank of England employee and wrote articles on economics for The Guardian.

Kelly’s maternal grandfather, Philip Murphy, served as an officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). In 1922 he was interned by the Government of Northern Ireland. Murphy’s detention file refers to him as ‘quartermaster of the West Fermanagh IRA Battalion’. He went on hunger strike to protest at his detention. He was released unconditionally in June 1924, when internment ended. Her paternal grandfather Francis (Frank) Kelly joined the Connaught Rangers and served in France during WW1. After the war he returned to county Tyrone and took up a post of School Master in Altishane. His first wife died leaving a young family of five. He remarried Mary Agnes and had another five children. One of them James (Seamus) was Ruth’s father.

She served on the Treasury Select Committee; she was also appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Agriculture Minister, Nick Brown, from 1998. Kelly was a member of a commission set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research into the Private Finance Initiative, which expressed some scepticism about the operation of the policy.

After Labour won the 2001 general election, Kelly was appointed as Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Her role focused on competition policy and small businesses. After a year she was promoted to be Financial Secretary to the Treasury, giving her responsibility for regulation of the financial services industry. In both positions her principal task was in the thorough revision of the Financial Services regulation system which was introduced by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Kelly brought in new regulations to tackle the funding of terrorism after September 2001 attacks.

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Kelly was born in Limavady, Northern Ireland. She also lived briefly in the Republic of Ireland before moving to England where she attended Edgarley Hall, the preparatory school for Millfield School. She was educated at the independent Sutton High School, run by the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST). After being moved up a year and sitting O-levels at Sutton High School at the age of 15, she decided to move back to Ireland to look after her ill grandmother. Her grandmother died after six weeks, but Kelly stayed for a year, living with her aunt and taking A-level French. She returned to England on winning a scholarship to the sixth-form of Westminster School. From Westminster, Kelly went up to The Queen’s College, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1986, graduating in 1989, and then on to the London School of Economics where she was awarded a MSc degree in Economics in 1992. Kelly taught at University of Navarra, after she joined the Labour Party in 1990, becoming a member of the party’s Bethnal Green and Stepney constituency party. She was an economics writer for The Guardian from 1990, before becoming deputy head of the Inflation Report Division of the Bank of England in 1994. She married Derek John Gadd, a local government officer, in 1996, and they have four children.

In the reshuffle following the resignation of David Blunkett on 15 December 2004, Kelly entered the Cabinet (also becoming a member of the Privy Council) with the position of Secretary of State for Education and Skills. She became the youngest woman ever to sit in the Cabinet.

Who is Ruth Kelly Dating?

According to our records, Ruth Kelly married to Derek Gadd . As of December 1, 2023, Ruth Kelly’s is not dating anyone.

According to Ofsted inspection in 2002 “those with special educational needs, make particularly good progress” at English Martyrs Roman Catholic school, and that pupils generally meet “standards that are much better than those gained by pupils in similar schools”. The school achieved the best exam results in the borough of Tower Hamlets and among the best in the UK, with 96% of children reaching the expected standard for English, and 100% for Maths and Science. The area’s education authority also runs six special needs schools within reach of Kelly’s home and responded to the controversy saying, “We are proud of the quality of education we offer to all children. We have a strong record in helping children with a wide range of learning needs to succeed.”

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Ruth Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ruth Kelly celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.

In a minor reshuffle, she was promoted to be Minister for the Cabinet Office on 9 September 2004, replacing Douglas Alexander. Kelly guided the Civil Contingencies Bill through its final stages in Parliament, which faced serious objections from some civil liberties campaigns.

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