Jenny Jones
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Jennifer Grace Jones (née Bew; born 8 February 1948) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Jones was selected as a Labour candidate through an all-women shortlist. She was elected as Member of Parliament in the 1997 general election for the Wolverhampton South West constituency, defeating the Conservative incumbent Nicholas Budgen with a majority of 5,118.However, fairly early on in Labour's first term in government, she announced that she would not be seeking re-election at the 2001 election.She was succeeded by Rob Marris.
Prior to entering Parliament, she worked as a social worker and had served on Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council from 1991 to 1997.In 2002 she was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wolverhampton.