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“These tributes have been a great comfort to Cheryl’s family, for which they are immensely grateful.” A number of people also left tributes via the BFP’s book of condolences, with former Amersham resident Martin King, who now lives in Australia, writing: “I am so very sad to learn that my MP in the UK, Dame Cheryl Gillan, has passed away. “I’d known Cheryl since 1992 when we fought the General Election for Amersham & Chesham. She was amazing – intelligent, joyful, kind, insightful and fierce when needed. “Cheryl was my mentor and friend in my political activism, and ...
Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 13.22 EDT Although the Conservative politician Cheryl Gillan, who has died aged 68 after suffering from cancer, served as Welsh secretary from 2010 to 2012, her further prospects of cabinet office may have been reduced by her opposition to the government’s plans to build the HS2 high speed rail link through the Chiltern hills of her Buckinghamshire constituency. She told her constituents in the safely Conservative suburban seat of Chesham and Amersham that she would defy the party whip – “be very, very sure of that” – during the 2010 general election ...
5 Apr 2021 at 17:12 I was and am proud to call Cheryl Gillan a friend. I was so sad to learn this afternoon that she had died. She had been in poor health for some time and had been devastated by the death of her beloved husband Jack Leeming at the age of 91 in 2019. She was absolutely devoted to him and cared for him lovingly in his latter years. They were a real team. He might have been older than her but they were so well matched. I first met Cheryl in the mid 1980s when she interviewed me to be a member of the Bow Group, back in the days when it was highly respected. They didn't accept a...