Eleanor Laing

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**Eleanor Laing**

Constituency	Epping Forest
Served	1997 — present
Majority	14,358 (32.0%)
Political Party	Conservative
Portfolio	Shadow minister for Women & Equality

Eleanor Fulton Laing (born 1 February 1958, Paisley as Eleanor Fulton Pritchard) is a British politician. She is Conservative Member of Parliament for Epping Forest, and was first elected in 1997. Currently she serves as Shadow Minister for Women.

She contested Paisley North in the 1987 general election. When Laing was first elected to the Epping Forest seat in 1997, the seat had been made a marginal by the Labour landslide. In 2001 the seat returned to safe status with a 19.8% majority. In 2005, she increased that majority to 32%. Laing has one son, born in 2001. She was divorced in 2002. She has an interest education, ransport, economic policy, constitution and devolution.

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