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70-397: Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the local territorial police force that covers the county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough unitary authority. It provides law enforcement and security for an area of 1,311 square miles (3,400 km) and population of 856,000 people, in a predominantly rural county. The force of Cambridgeshire includes the cities of Cambridge , Ely and Peterborough,

140-634: A PhD in economic history , with a thesis on the slave trade written as a critique of the Marxist model of historical change, titled Warrior Aristocrats in Crisis: the political effects of the transition from the slave trade to palm oil commerce in the nineteenth century Kingdom of Dahomey . From 1979 to 1983, Reid was a research officer for the Labour Party in Scotland, and from 1983 to 1985,

210-520: A 22% pay rise while also allowing them to opt out of providing weekend and evening treatment. As Health Secretary, Reid had been in favour of limiting the government's proposed smoking ban as much as possible. In their 2005 election manifesto, he introduced a pledge to ban smoking in all places where food was served. His successor Patricia Hewitt favoured a complete ban. Reid won in the cabinet, gaining an exemption for private clubs and pubs that did not serve food. The House of Commons rebels proposing

280-584: A bruiser, but with a strong academic leaning. At the Home Office Reid hit the ground running. He contended that rapid global change and the associated challenges of mass migration, terrorism and organised crime had overwhelmed the outdated Home Office approach. Reid caused considerable controversy by attacking the leadership and management systems previously in place in the Home Office. He infamously declared it to be "not fit for purpose", adding

350-541: A budget in for the year of 2018 of £134 million, of which £78.4 million (58.5%) came directly as an annual grant from the Home Office and the rest from local council taxes . The chief constable is Nick Dean. The force is overseen by the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC). The origins of Cambridgeshire Constabulary date back to 1836, when the first police force within what are now

420-550: A commitment to making the Immigration and Nationality Directorate an agency with a uniformed border staff and tough new powers. radical overhaul of the core systems and structures within the Home Office itself, reform of IND, re-balancing of the criminal justice system, reform of the probation service and the review of counter-terrorist capabilities. He condemned the probation service for letting people down, and argued for fundamental reform. An early decision during his time at

490-675: A complete ban were successful when MPs were given a free vote on the issue. Patricia Hewitt voted with the rebels against the Cabinet's proposals. Following the incumbent Labour Party's 2005 general election victory, Reid was appointed Secretary of State for Defence . He replaced Geoff Hoon . At Defence, Reid questioned "the adequacy of the international legal framework in the light of modern developments in conflict". He suggested that "the body of relevant international rules and conventions should, where beneficial, be strengthened", especially "to cope with conflict against non-state actors such as

560-510: A difficult step to take. It was in this context that, in October 2001 he welcomed a Gerry Adams speech as a "highly significant" step which he hoped would pave the way for a "groundbreaking" move by the IRA to disarm which would transform the political situation. And following the IRA's decision Reid responded by announcing the immediate demolition of British Army security bases and announcing

630-493: A guest of Karadžić in 1993. After Labour came to power at the 1997 general election , Reid became Armed Forces Minister, where he played a key role in the Defence Secretary George Robertson 's Strategic Defence Review. Reid gained considerable praise for the review; with some commentators going so far as to describe his success in cutting military expenditure at the same time as winning over

700-564: A heavyweight figure was more likely to ensure the Commons' continued support for the war. He held the position for only a little over two months and was succeeded by a more junior member of the Government, Peter Hain . Reid was made Secretary of State for Health in June 2003, replacing Alan Milburn after the latter's resignation. He was reportedly less than happy with the appointment. He

770-701: A life peerage in the Dissolution Honours and elevated to the House of Lords . Reid took a leading role in the campaign for a "No" vote in the 2011 AV referendum , appearing alongside Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron , and also took a leading role in the campaign opposing Scottish independence. Reid was born in Bellshill Maternity Hospital , North Lanarkshire , Scotland, to working-class Roman Catholic parents; his grandparents were of mixed denomination. His grandfather

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840-582: A press interview that "no institution has the divine right to exist". Similarly on 19 March 2006, in response to former interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi 's claim that Iraq is in the grip of civil war , Reid defended the British Government's contrary view. He stated: "Every single politician I have met here [in Iraq ] from the prime minister to the president , the defence minister and indeed Iyad Allawi himself said to me there's an increase in

910-440: A prosperous future. Throughout his period of office he was continually engaged in talks with all side of the community in an attempt to reduce the level of inter-community troubles. He blamed paramilitaries from both sides of the community for the ongoing violence. He confronted both, on the ground, at a violent east Belfast interface, where he met loyalist residents of Cluan Place and then had talks with nationalist residents in

980-549: A reduction in troop levels as the security situation improved, effectively beginning a process which culminated in September 2005, when the disarmament monitor for Northern Ireland, the Canadian General John de Chastelain announced that the IRA had given up its entire arsenal of weapons after more than three decades of armed struggle against British rule. Reid oversaw the final stages of the transformation of

1050-485: A series of jobs, including construction work on an oil pipeline and another in insurance; at the latter job, which Reid later claimed opened his eyes politically, he was assigned to the tenements in the East End of Glasgow after the city was hit by storms in late-1968 and saw poverty of a kind he did not know existed. Soon after this experience, he joined the Labour Party. Around this time Reid's passion for history

1120-542: Is also collaboration on a seven-force function with the adjacent forces of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent with serious incident, counter terrorism and intelligence under the regional organised crime unit , the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU). Vehicle procurement is done in association with Thames Valley Police , British Transport Police and Civil Nuclear Constabulary as well as Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire under

1190-427: Is subdivided into two areas (also called divisions) and are known simply as North and South. Northern local policing headquartered at Thorpe Wood, covers the city of Peterborough and the district of Fenland . Southern local policing is headquartered at Parkside, and it covers the districts of Cambridge City , South Cambridgeshire , East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire . Prior to 2012, Cambridgeshire Constabulary

1260-513: Is the current Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire , Julie Spence OBE QPM, who was chief constable from 2005 to 2010. The constabulary headquarters is based in the Huntingdon suburb of Hinchingbrooke, which is home to the force executive board, information management and the force control room. The constabulary also works together with eleven police stations throughout the local policing area. They are: Cambridge (known simply as Parkside , after

1330-640: The County and Borough Police Act 1856 , which required each borough to have its own local police force. Wisbech Borough Police came under the authority of the Isle of Ely Constabulary in 1889. In 1949, the two forces that covered the city of Peterborough; the Liberty of Peterborough Constabulary and the Peterborough City Police merged to form Peterborough Combined Police . Cambridge Borough Police

1400-626: The Department of Transport to ensure the late-running and over-budget London Underground Jubilee Line Extension was completed by the end of 2000. He and John Prescott brought in Bechtel as Project Managers, ensuring Phase 1 was opened on 1 May 1999, and the whole Jubilee line with the exception of one station ( Westminster ) was ultimately open for business by the Millennium. Reid demonstrated several aspects: he negotiated strongly; he

1470-674: The Human Rights Act 1998 . The Home Office granted the men "temporary leave to remain", which involved restricting their freedom of movement and did not allow them to work; in 2006, the High Court ruled that the men must be granted "discretionary leave to remain", which includes the right to work. Reid challenged the ruling in the Court of Appeal , arguing that the Home Office "should have the power to grant only temporary admission to failed asylum seekers who are only allowed to stay in

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1540-500: The United Kingdom (UK) the phrase is gaining increased official (but not yet statutory ) use to describe the collection of forces responsible for general policing in areas defined with respect to local government areas. The phrase " Home Office Police" is commonly used but this is often inaccurate or inadequate as the words naturally exclude forces outside England and Wales , but include some special police forces over which

1610-731: The sectarian killing, but there's not a civil war and we will not allow a civil war to develop". By the time of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict , Reid was no longer Defence Secretary, having been succeeded by Des Browne . On 3 February 2010, Reid gave evidence about his role as Defence Secretary to the Iraq Inquiry . He said that America's experience of the Vietnam War had impacted negatively on US post-invasion planning in Iraq because US military chiefs "weren't thinking of detailed nation-building". Reid also said he had "deep sadness at

1680-643: The Chiltern Transport Consortium. *Arnold had been acting chief constable since 1946 The Police Roll of Honour Trust and Police Memorial Trust list and commemorate all British police officers killed in the line of duty. Since its establishment in 1984, the Police Memorial Trust has erected 50 memorials nationally to some of those officers. The following officers of Cambridgeshire Constabulary were killed while they were on duty, or returning to / from duty: The head of

1750-769: The Home Office lost their appeal against the High Court ruling in the Afghan hijackers case 2006 . In this controversial case, a group of nine Afghan men who hijacked a Boeing 727 in February 2000, while fleeing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan , were granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom. The original ruling in 2004 ruled that returning the men to Afghanistan would breach their human rights under

1820-512: The Home Office was to move child molesters living in hostels near schools further away from them. Reid also caused controversy in August 2006 by calling for the creation of an independent committee to impose a national annual limit on the number of immigrants entering the UK. The Guardian claimed that Reid was "playing to the racist gallery" and compared his plans to Soviet -style central planning of

1890-522: The Home Secretary has some power. The police forces referred to as "territorial" are those whose police areas are defined by: Members of territorial police forces have jurisdiction in one of the three distinct legal systems of the United Kingdom – either England and Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland . A police officer of one of the three legal systems has all the powers of a constable throughout their own legal system but limited powers in

1960-571: The House of Commons and Lord President of the Council in 2003, Health Secretary from 2003 to 2005, Defence Secretary from 2005 to 2006, and Home Secretary from 2006 to 2007. He retired from frontline politics in 2007 following Gordon Brown 's appointment as Prime Minister , taking on a role as the Chairman of Celtic Football Club . After stepping down as an MP in 2010 , he was nominated for

2030-451: The MP for Motherwell North . He served as a junior minister in two departments from 1997, before he was promoted to the Cabinet in 1999; he served continuously in the Cabinet until Blair resigned in 2007. Reid served as Scottish Secretary from 1999 to 2001, Northern Ireland Secretary from 2001 to 2002, Chairman of the Labour Party and Minister without Portfolio from 2002 to 2003, Leader of

2100-564: The NHS at an unprecedented rate. Reid also introduced plans to increase the number of smoke-free workplaces and improve diet and sexual health as part of a major drive to improve public health in England and began a major public consultation as a precursor to parliamentary proposals aimed at improving the nation's health. He also encouraged volunteer engagement in the health service. Many of his changes caused criticism and controversy, which Reid

2170-734: The RUC into the Police Service Northern Ireland, and the first endorsement of the service by representatives of the Nationalist community. Political problems continued, resulting in the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly a year later in October 2002. The peace process was to be put on hold until there was a "clear and unequivocal commitment" that the IRA would disband. Reid made an emergency statement to Parliament announcing direct rule in

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2240-689: The UN from time to time. These were usually formed from police personnel on loan from member countries. A recent example is the use of such a force in East Timor in substitution for Indonesian National Police . John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party , he has held various Cabinet positions under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2007, lastly as Home Secretary from 2006 to 2007. He

2310-592: The constabulary is Chief Constable Nick Dean, a former assistant chief constable of Norfolk Constabulary who came into the role as chief constable in October 2018. His deputies are head of investigations Deputy Chief Constable Jane Gyford, formerly a commander of the City of London Police and head of operations Assistant Chief Constable Vicki Evans, previously the Assistant Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys Police . One notable former chief constable

2380-612: The current boundaries of the force area was set up in the city of Cambridge under the name Cambridge Borough Police . This was followed in 1841 by establishment of the Isle of Ely Constabulary, covering the city of Ely, as well as Chatteris and March. Cambridgeshire County Constabulary was formed in 1851 to police those rural parts of the county outside the jurisdiction of the Cambridge Borough Police. The boroughs of Huntingdonshire and Wisbech and city of Peterborough did not start their own police forces until 1857, under

2450-566: The defence chiefs as "brilliant". As Minister he lobbied for the release of two Scots Guards convicted of murdering teenager Peter McBride in Belfast in 1992. At the same time he refused requests to meet the McBride family. Reid eventually met with the McBride family whilst he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In 1998, Reid moved from Defence to become Minister of State for Transport . Prime Minister Tony Blair then sent Reid to

2520-514: The economy. Because of the prisons' overcrowding crisis in Birmingham , on 9 October 2006 he announced emergency measures amid fears that the prison population was nearing maximum capacity. Reid has announced his support of measures to restrict the ability of extremist messages to be disseminated on the Internet so as to make the web a more hostile place for terrorists. In 2006 Reid and

2590-426: The first since the 1989 OSA , to punish with longer prison sentences intelligence officers who blow the whistle on government policy by leaking secret information. To remove their key legal defence of necessity and/or defence of public interest. By the time he arrived at the Home Office, Reid was seen as one of the government's most effective performers over the previous decade, being described by many commentators as

2660-561: The floor to vote. When an attendant stepped forward to stop him, Reid threw a punch". Reid stopped drinking in 1994 and gave up his 60-a-day cigarette habit in 2003. At university, Reid was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain . With the support of Communist and Labour students, he became president of the students' union . After leaving university, he became a professional Labour Party activist, linked politically with Neil Kinnock. As an advisor to Neil Kinnock, Reid

2730-495: The force. Territorial police force The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP/GRC) is the federal-level police service. It also acts as the provincial police service in every province except for Ontario , and Quebec , which operate provincial police services, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador , which is served by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary . The RCMP is also contracted to act as

2800-498: The interim. In the interim, Reid also had to deal with continuing domestic problems; including those with loyalist ceasefires, sectarian murders and the tinderbox of Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast (that ignited the worst rioting in the city in years). But, so far as 10 Downing Street was concerned, Reid had gone a long way to delivering the rarest of political commodities – success in Northern Ireland. Reid

2870-616: The international terrorist… this means extending, not reducing, such conventions". Reid committed 3,300 troops to Helmand province , Afghanistan in January 2006. Despite a lack of detailed intelligence, the Army anticipated the Helmand mission would be straightforward compared to its difficult mission in Basra it was withdrawing from, with short small patrols from fixed bases. In speaking to

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2940-638: The local authorities in the police area. His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) conducts a periodic police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) inspection of each police service's performance. In its latest PEEL inspection, Cambridgeshire Constabulary was rated as follows: In 2019, the constabulary was involved in the Channel 4 reality programme Famous and Fighting Crime where five personalities Penny Lancaster , Jamie Laing , Katie Piper , Sandi Bogle and Marcus Brigstocke acted as special constables for

3010-401: The loss of life" in Iraq. Reid was appointed Home Secretary on 5 May 2006, replacing Charles Clarke after the latter was removed in the wake of a Home Office scandal involving the release of foreign national prisoners. On 2 July 2006, Reid proposed a Bill for the autumn Queen's Speech , to be brought into law at the next session of Parliament. He proposed a new Official Secrets Act,

3080-622: The market towns of Chatteris , Huntingdon , March , Ramsey , St Ives , St Neots , Whittlesey , and town and Port of Wisbech . Its emblem is a crowned Brunswick star containing the heraldic badge of Cambridgeshire County Council. According to a government report in July 2018 on policing numbers, the force consists of 1,383 police officers (giving the county a ratio of 163 officers per 100,000 people), 111 police community support officers and 778 members of staff. Together with 229 special constables and 84 police support volunteers . It had

3150-565: The media Reid said "We would be perfectly happy to leave in three years and without firing one shot because our job is to protect the reconstruction." In the first year about 4 million bullets and 25,000 artillery rounds had been fired by the British armed forces. Reid took an aggressive approach to defending his government's international policy. Speaking ahead of a conference on NATO modernisation in Germany on 4 February 2006, Reid asserted in

3220-713: The nearby Short Strand. Reid ruled that ceasefires proclaimed by the Ulster Defence Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force could no longer be recognised by the government because of their involvement in sectarian attacks and murders. At the same time he put pressure on the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) to make a move on arms decommissioning to help end the political impasse, whilst acknowledging that putting its weapons beyond use would be

3290-510: The new Home Secretary. Since 2010, the force has been collaborating with Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire Constabulary to form a mid-Anglia "triforce" with various departments collaborating to make local efficiencies with resources. Areas that have been collaborated include Human Resources, Information Technology, Major Crime Unit, Dog Unit , Tactical Firearms Unit , Information Management Unit, Tickets and Collisions Office, Road Policing Unit , Scenes of Crime and Procurement. There

3360-640: The other two legal systems. Certain exceptions where full police powers cross the border with the officer are when officers are providing planned support to another force such as the G8 Conference in Scotland in 2005 or COP26 officers of the Metropolitan Police who are on protection duties anywhere in the United Kingdom and when taking a person to or from a prison . The United Nations (UN) has operated territorial police forces in those parts of countries which have been under control of

3430-468: The phrase to the British political lexicon, and vowed to "make the public feel safe". Reid's comments were rebuffed by Clarke, who criticised his comments in a defence of his own period in office. Within 100 days of joining the Department, he had published three reform plans for a radical transformation. They included 8,000 more prison places; a 40 per cent reduction in headquarters staff by 2010;

3500-427: The position to build his profile, prepared to put the government's case on any issue against TV interviewers. After Donald Dewar , Scotland's respected First Minister , died in 2000 Reid's name was even mentioned as a possible replacement. In fact Reid was left to deal with much of the fall-out after the death and would be increasingly at loggerheads with the new Labour First Minister, Henry McLeish , whom Reid felt

3570-406: The street it is based on), Histon , Sawston , Ely, Cambourne , St Ives, Huntingdon town, St Neots, March, Wisbech, Hampton and Peterborough (known as Thorpe Wood , after the local nature park). It has a local police training facility in the parish of Abbots Ripton , near Alconbury (known as Monks Wood , after the local national nature reserve ). In local policing management, the force area

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3640-749: The territorial police force in Nunavut , Yukon and the Northwest Territories in addition to being the federal police force in those Canadian territories. A separate Sahrawi indigenous unit serving the Spanish colonial government was the Policia Territorial . This gendarmerie corresponded to the Civil Guard in metropolitan Spain . It was commanded by Spanish officers and included Spanish personnel of all ranks. In

3710-400: The then Home Secretary Charles Clarke proposed the creation of an East Anglian force merging Cambridgeshire with Norfolk and Suffolk . While Norfolk and Cambridgeshire supported it, Suffolk would have preferred to have Eastern Coastal force with Norfolk and Essex . Essex on the other hand wanted to stay alone. However, these proposes were scrapped after a cabinet reshuffle with John Reid as

3780-514: The unions to many of the Government's proposals. As part of this, Reid agreed to look at proposals to stop private contractors exploiting low-paid workers (a key union demand). In March 2003, Robin Cook resigned as Leader of the House of Commons due to his objections to the legality of Britain's involvement in the Iraq War . Reid was appointed to take over the role on 4 April; it was thought that

3850-446: Was "a staunch Church of Scotland Presbyterian and his grandmother a poor and illiterate Irish peasant." His mother, Mary, was a factory worker and his father, Thomas, was a postman. Reid attended St Patrick's High School, Coatbridge . The adolescent Reid showed an early talent for organisation and political activism by leading a student strike in protest at a school rule. Reid initially decided not to go to university but instead took

3920-469: Was a political adviser to Labour leader Neil Kinnock . From 1986 to 1987, he was Scottish Organiser of Trade Unionists for Labour. He entered parliament at the 1987 general election as MP for the Motherwell North constituency. After boundary changes, he was returned at the 1997 election for the new constituency of Hamilton North and Bellshill ; and after further boundary changes in 2005, he

3990-573: Was a political fighter; he had a "capacity for non-dogmatic adaptability and reliability"; and was described as "a safe pair of hands". Having impressed at both Transport and Defence Reid was promoted to Secretary of State for Scotland on 17 May 1999 and a full place at the cabinet table . In his first month, the Scottish Parliament was re-established after an interval of 300 years. The reconstituted Scotland Office had been much reduced in importance with devolution but Reid used

4060-546: Was also a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2010 , and has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. Born in Bellshill to working-class , Roman Catholic parents, Reid first became involved in politics when he joined the Young Communist League in 1972. He later joined the Labour Party , working for them as a senior researcher before being elected to the House of Commons in 1987 as

4130-553: Was appointed Chairman of the Labour Party and Minister Without Portfolio on 24 October 2002. In this purely political post, his trouble-shooting skills were employed as the Labour Government's chief spokesperson; this earned him the nickname "Minister for the Today Programme ". One of Reid's key challenges was to keep the trade unions (the Labour Party's main funders) onside despite the antipathy shown by

4200-424: Was appointed to the Shadow Front Bench as spokesperson for Children. In 1990, Reid was appointed as Defence spokesperson. When the former Yugoslavia was breaking up in the 1990s, Reid was in dialogue with the Bosnian Serbs. During the Bosnian War , Reid struck up a friendship with Radovan Karadžić , later to be indicted as a war criminal. Reid admitted he spent three days at a luxury Geneva lakeside hotel as

4270-487: Was created by the Local Government Act 1972 with identical boundaries to the Mid-Anglia Constabulary area. In 2001 the constabulary conducted one of Peterborough's biggest police enquiries following the racist murder of teenager Ross Parker . 2002 saw the Soham murders , an event that led to the biggest investigation in the history of Cambridgeshire police and one of the most expensive in the country, costing £3.5million. In March 2006, as part review on policing nationally

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4340-400: Was kindled when his girlfriend (and later wife), Cathie McGowan, bought him a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer . Reid was spellbound. Following this he attended the Open University in his mid-twenties to study a Foundation Course and then later attended the University of Stirling , becoming rector of the Students' Union and gaining a BA in history and

4410-402: Was not afraid to take head on, delivering a staunch defence of Labour's reform programme to the party's annual conference. He made the case for extending to all the choices normally only available to those who could afford them. Reid's management style was considered autocratic by some and he came under considerable fire from National Health Service (NHS) leaders. He was criticized for giving GPs

4480-437: Was one of the earliest advocates for reforms to the Labour Party . In 1983, after the Labour Party's worst electoral defeat in 65 years, and at Kinnock's request, he put on a single sheet of paper what he thought had made Labour unelectable: "Leaderless, unpatriotic, dominated by demagogues, policies fifteen years out of date". Elected to Parliament in 1987 as the Member of Parliament for Motherwell North, within two years he

4550-417: Was overseen by a police authority that comprised 17 members. This was made up of nine district councillors, of which seven were nominated by Cambridgeshire County Council and two by Peterborough City Council, three magistrates, nominated by the county's magistrates' courts committee; and five independent members, chosen from the community. However, In 2011 the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

4620-454: Was passed by Parliament which abolished Police Authorities in favour of an elected police and crime commissioner (PCC). On 15 November 2012, elections took place in England and Wales to elect a PCC for each Police Area . In Cambridgeshire, the winning candidate was Conservative Sir Graham Bright , former MP for Luton. The Cambridgeshire PCC is scrutinised by the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from

4690-421: Was renamed Cambridge City Police in 1951. In 1965, all five forces that exist in the Cambridgeshire area (Cambridge City Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Isle of Ely Constabulary, Huntingdonshire Constabulary, and Peterborough Combined Police) amalgamated to form the new Mid-Anglia Constabulary. The force was renamed Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 1974, when the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire

4760-520: Was reported by Private Eye at the time as reacting "Oh fuck, not health." But Reid had established himself as one of Tony Blair 's most trusted ministers, and his appointment as Health Secretary took him into his fourth cabinet job in less than a year. At Health, Reid saw himself as a reformer, controversially increasing capacity by introducing private companies to run treatment centres for knee, hip and eye operations. He claimed this provided extra staff and extra capacity to help treat more patients in

4830-428: Was returned at the 2005 election for the new constituency of Airdrie and Shotts with 59% of the votes cast. Reid was married to Cathie McGowan from 1969 until her sudden death from a heart attack in 1998. They had two sons, Kevin and Mark. In 2002, he married film director Carine Adler . According to The Guardian , in 1991, Reid arrived at the House of Commons "drunk one day and tried to force his way on to

4900-522: Was taking the Parliament down a nationalist path. The situation became so strained between the two that in an unguarded moment McLeish publicly labelled Reid "a patronising bastard". Reid became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in January 2001 following the resignation of Peter Mandelson . He was the first Roman Catholic to hold the position. While dismissing the personal significance of this, he used it to insist that every person in Northern Ireland, from whatever background or tradition, wanted

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