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June 2009: Patricia is to step down at the March 2007: Patricia Hewitt discusses the
next election. She has planned to leave the achievements of the NHS during her time as
Commons to spend more time with her family. Secretary for Health.
corporate life either. She moved for.” She later joined the Labour to remember that the future
to London, and began work at Party and was assigned a “safe” is there to be created. All
Age Concern as a secretary, seat in Leicester West, which has the entrepreneurial, social
and later became their Press been her constituency ever since. and political leaders we have
Offi cer. It was as a Press Offi cer It’s clear that Patricia’s university interviewed show a remarkable
that she ran into politics. She days make easy reading for the tendency to focus, achieve, and
opposed a bill proposed by the career she’s gone onto have. infl uence people around them.
then Conservative Party on the The bottom line is that she is a There is no reason why these
rights of women’s pensions. She classic fusion of hard work, with traits can’t be developed by many
worked the campaign effi ciently passion to network and get things more students whilst at university.
and became involved in the done, as well as being charming, What is required is passion with
women’s rights circles. She an excellent organiser, and an a tinge of vision in young people
went onto join Liberty (back assertive leader. I don’t believe to deliver a brighter future for
then called National Council for for a moment she was born with themselves and others at large.
Civil Liberties), and became their such leadership traits. Rather With these two prerequisites
General Secretary. Her rise was she has consciously nurtured there is no reason to think that the
nothing short of rapid. She ran her skills and utilised them three years most students spend
and executed several high profi le effi ciently. at university
campaigns earning her deserved
recognition as “one to watch out As students, it’s important .
cannot become the
bedrock for future leadership
roles.
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