Janey Buchan
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Janey O'Neil Buchan (née Kent), (b. April 30, 1926, Glasgow) was a Scottish Labour MEP for the Glasgow constituency from 1979 to 1994 when she retired from the post under pressure from modernisers within the party.
Her father was a tram driver, and her mother a domestic servant. She left school at the age of 14, as was typical for working class children at the time, and worked as a typist. At the age of 19 she married Norman Buchan, who was a Labour MP from 1964 till his death in 1990 for West Renfrewshire and latterly Paisley South.
She attended commercial college and was a councillor on Strathclyde Regional Council from 1974 to 1979, when she was first elected to the European Parliament (in the first elections to that institution). Whilst a MEP she sat on the European Parliament's Culture Committee as well as being involved in the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Gas Consumers Council.
She is the Life President of Outright Scotland.
