Fiona Mactaggart

Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough since 1997.

Education

While at university, Mactaggart was an outspoken member of the Young Students and Socialists Society and sought to live down her school days at Cheltenham Ladies' College, an independent school for girls in the spa town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. She read for a BA in English at King's College London, an MA at the Institute of Education and a PGCE at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Mactaggart was Vice-President and National Secretary of the National Union of Students from 1978 to 1981. She was Press and Public Relations Officer for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for six months before being General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants from 1982–87. She was a primary school teacher in Peckham from 1987–92, noting "I have a voice that children can hear at the other end of the playground".