Daphne Barbara Follett (née Hubbard, born 25 December 1942) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stevenage since 1997. She is married to author Ken Follett. Follett is currently a junior minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, having for a short term filled the role of Margaret Hodge, as Tourism Minister.
Follett and her husband have been referred to as champagne socialists in the medi...
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Daphne Barbara Follett (née Hubbard, born 25 December 1942) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stevenage since 1997. She is married to author Ken Follett. Follett is currently a junior minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, having for a short term filled the role of Margaret Hodge, as Tourism Minister.
Follett and her husband have been referred to as champagne socialists in the media due to the contrast between their political views and their extravagant lifestyle.
Barbara Follett was born Daphne Barbara Hubbard in Kingston, Jamaica 25 December 1942 where her father was an insurance executive. In 1946 the family returned, first to Jersey then in 1947 to Billericay, Essex. In 1952 the family moved to Ethiopia. In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley, the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa. She began a University degree in...
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