Fiona Mactaggart

Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British politician and former primary school teacher who has been chair of the Fawcett Society since 2018. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough from 1997 to 2017. Early life and career Mactaggart was educated at the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College. She read for a BA in English at King's College London, an MA at the Institute of Education and a PGCE at Goldsmiths, University of London. While at university, she was an outspoken member of the Young Students and Socialists Society and sought to live down her school days at Cheltenham Ladies' College. Mactaggart was vice-president and National Secretary of the National Union of Students from 1978 to 1981. She was Press and Public Relations Officer for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for six months before being General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants from 1982 to 1987. She was a primary school teacher in Peckham from 1987 to 1992, noting "I have a voice that children can hear at the other end of the playground".