Fiona Elizabeth Ann Jones was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
17 Facts About Fiona Jones
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Fiona Jones was elected as a Member of Parliament for Newark in Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 general election.
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Fiona Jones was the first MP to be disqualified from membership of the House of Commons for that offence since it was introduced by the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883.
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Fiona Jones later lost a civil case brought against the police for malicious prosecution.
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Fiona Jones was born in Liverpool and grew up in Fazakerley.
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Fiona Jones attended Wirral College of Art and Preston College, and joined the Labour Party at the age of 17.
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Fiona Jones became a freelance journalist; her future husband, Christopher Jones, was a journalist, who worked for the BBC.
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Fiona Jones was elected as a Labour member of West Lindsey District Council, gaining Gainsborough South West ward from the Liberal Democrats in 1990.
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Fiona Jones served a single term and did not seek re-election in 1994.
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Fiona Jones was unsuccessful as the Labour Parliamentary candidate in the Conservative stronghold of Gainsborough and Horncastle in the 1992 general election, finishing in third place, and then failed to secure the nomination to fight for the marginal seat of Lincoln and the safe Labour seat of Liverpool Riverside.
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Fiona Jones was elected as Member of Parliament for Newark in the 1997 general election, ousting Conservative MP Richard Alexander, who had held the seat since the 1979 general election.
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Fiona Jones was pictured alongside 96 other women Labour MPs in the "Blair babes" photograph, and seen next to Tony Blair himself.
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In Parliament, Fiona Jones was a member of the Agriculture Select Committee.
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Fiona Jones contested her seat in the 2001 general election, but lost to the Conservative candidate Patrick Mercer.
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Fiona Jones reportedly became reliant on alcohol after she was shunned by her colleagues when she returned to the House of Commons in 1999 - only 34 signed an early day motion welcoming her back to the House of Commons after her conviction was quashed.
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Fiona Jones's husband said that she refused to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in case she was recognised.
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Fiona Jones was found dead at her home in Saxilby by her husband, reportedly surrounded by 15 empty vodka bottles.