{"id":175995,"date":"2023-05-25T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=175995"},"modified":"2023-05-25T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:54:44","slug":"penny-mordaunt-chokes-back-tears-as-she-pays-tribute-to-karen-lumley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/penny-mordaunt-chokes-back-tears-as-she-pays-tribute-to-karen-lumley\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Mordaunt chokes back tears as she pays tribute to Karen Lumley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Red-eyed Penny Mordaunt chokes back tears as Leader of the Commons pays tribute to &#8216;force of nature&#8217; Karen Lumley after death of former Tory MP<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Karen\u00a0Lumley, a married mother-of-two, was MP for Redditch from 2010 to 2017\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Penny Mordaunt choked back tears today as she paid tribute to Karen Lumley as a &#8216;force of nature&#8217; following the death of the former Tory MP.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of the House of Commons told MPs the 59-year-old had been a &#8216;larger-than-life character&#8217; and remembered her &#8216;amazing hairdos&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Lumley, a married mother-of-two, was MP for Redditch from 2010 to 2017 and served on a number of Commons committees.<\/p>\n<p>She also had a spell as a parliamentary aide to ministers in the Department of Health during her seven years in the Commons.<\/p>\n<p>The former councillor won her Redditch seat off Jacqui Smith, the former Labour home secretary, at the 2010 general election.<\/p>\n<p>She chose not to defend her Worcestershire constituency at the 2017 election due to ill health.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/15\/71405039-12124449-Penny_Mordaunt_choked_back_tears_as_she_paid_tribute_to_Karen_Lu-a-57_1685025325568.jpg\" height=\"568\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Penny Mordaunt choked back tears as she paid tribute to Karen Lumley as a &#8216;force of nature&#8217; following the death of the former Tory MP<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/15\/71405123-12124449-image-m-43_1685024413507.jpg\" height=\"854\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lumley, a married mother-of-two, was MP for Redditch from 2010 to 2017 and served on a number of Commons committees<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/15\/71406887-12124449-Karen_Lumley_often_sported_brightly_coloured_hair_in_the_Commons-a-58_1685025333443.jpg\" height=\"323\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/25\/15\/71406891-12124449-Karen_Lumley_often_sported_brightly_coloured_hair_in_the_Commons-a-59_1685025339842.jpg\" height=\"323\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Mordaunt remembered Lumley&#8217;s &#8216;amazing hairdos&#8217; &#8211; the former MP often sported brightly-coloured styles in the Commons<\/p>\n<p>Announcing Lumley&#8217;s death to the Commons this morning, Ms Mordaunt said: &#8216;Yesterday we had the sad news that the world has lost an icon in Tina Turner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But in the early hours of this morning we in this place also lost our own larger-than-life character\u00a0\u2013 our former colleague, Karen Lumley, member for Redditch from 2010 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As well as the work she did for her constituents and in the service of Parliament on the Welsh, Finance and Transport select committees\u00a0\u2013 and in government as a PPS in Health\u00a0\u2013 she was a force of nature, and a force for good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We will miss her, her amazing hairdos, and the joy she brought us all, and we will cherish the memories we have of her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mordaunt, whose eyes appeared reddened, said the House would want to send their love to Lumley&#8217;s family, including her husband Richard and children Lizzie and Chris.<\/p>\n<p>She paid tribute to Lumley at the start of her business statement to MPs and appeared to temporarily forget she had yet to set out the timetable of upcoming debates.<\/p>\n<p>After momentarily sitting down, Ms Mordaunt said:\u00a0&#8216;Forgive me, she meant a lot to all of us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She then detailed the upcoming Commons business for when MPs return from their Whitsun recess on 5 June.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12124449\/Penny-Mordaunt-chokes-tears-pays-tribute-Karen-Lumley-death-former-Tory-MP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-eyed Penny Mordaunt chokes back tears 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