Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece

Meral Hussein Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece, OBE (born 10 October 1953) is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She has been the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Equalities since 2015.

She was elected as to Hackney Council as a Labour Party councillor for Clissold ward in 1994,[4] and was Deputy Leader in 1995 and 1996.[5] She was the first woman from a Turkish/Cypriot background elected to public office in the UK.[6]

Following a split in the Hackney Labour group, in 1997 Ece joined the Liberal Democrats; she was re-elected to Hackney Borough Council in Dalston ward in 1998.

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