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Liz Kendall is a Labour politician and the Member of Parliament for Leicester West, who left the government during a cabinet reshuffle. She had previously served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, and before that as Work and Pensions Secretary.
Kendall oversaw a significant period of technology policy, including work on sovereign AI capability, ahead of the department's later restructuring. Her departure from government was among a wider set of changes affecting ministers from the previous administration. Our feed tracks reaction to her time in government and her activities as a backbench MP.
Widely known for her earlier focus on welfare and social care policy, Kendall brought a distinct policy background to the science and technology brief compared with many of her ministerial colleagues.
First elected to Parliament for Leicester West in 2010, Kendall held a range of shadow ministerial roles, including shadow work and pensions secretary, before her cabinet appointments in social security and later science policy.
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