24 Facts About Alice Mahon

Alice Mahon was a British trade unionist and Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1987 until 2005.

Alice Mahon left the House of Commons in 2005 and resigned from the Labour Party in 2009, expressing objections to the party's political positions and internal operations.

Alice Mahon was first elected for the Halifax constituency at the 1987 general election.

In 1994, commenting on Tony Blair, Alice Mahon told Chris Mullin that she was "in the Stop Blair camp" of the party.

Alice Mahon opposed the missile defence plans during her period in the House of Commons and sought to protect benefits for parents, women's rights, and gay rights.

Alice Mahon was a supporter of reform of the House of Lords.

Alice Mahon was opposed to the Iraq War, speaking in 2004 of the "cruel barbarism that has been inflicted upon Iraq".

Alice Mahon told the 2003 Labour Party Conference, "we were lied to about WMD and there is no delicate way of putting it".

Alice Mahon was a defence witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in 2006.

Alice Mahon appeared to be critical of the generally accepted narrative of the Racak massacre.

Alice Mahon suffered from age-related macular degeneration, a disease which causes progressive blindness.

Alice Mahon lost most of the sight in one eye and expected to lose sight in the other.

Alice Mahon resigned her membership of the Labour Party in April 2009, saying she could no longer condone how it operates.

Alice Mahon had backed John McDonnell's aborted Labour leadership campaign.

Alice Mahon condemned the failure of the party to stick to its election manifesto, including pledges not to privatise the Royal Mail and to give the country a referendum on the EU Constitution.

Alice Mahon remained active in left-wing politics, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop the War Coalition, of which she was a patron.

Alice Mahon was a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK, and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

Alice Mahon was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.

Alice Mahon re-joined Labour in 2015 following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.

Alice Mahon was married to John Gledhill until the couple divorced in 1972.

Alice Mahon then married Tony Mahon, and they remained together until his death in January 2022.

Alice Mahon had two sons from her first marriage and a stepdaughter from her second.

Alice Mahon was a longtime resident of Northowram, West Yorkshire.

Alice Mahon died at a care home in Halifax on 25 December 2022, at the age of 85.