Editing Clare Short (section)

{{Short description|British politician (born 1946)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = Clare Short
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = File:Paris 2011 192 (5494065443) (cropped 2).jpg
| caption             = Short in 2011
| office              = [[Secretary of State for International Development]]
| primeminister       = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start          = 2 May 1997
| term_end            = 12 May 2003
| predecessor         = [[Lynda Chalker|The Baroness Chalker of Wallasey]]{{efn|As Minister for Overseas Development}}
| successor           = [[The Baroness Amos]]
| office1             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br/>for [[Birmingham Ladywood]]
| term_start1         = 9 June 1983
| term_end1           = 12 April 2010
| predecessor1        = [[John Sever]]
| successor1          = [[Shabana Mahmood]]
| title2              = Shadow portfolios
| suboffice2          = [[Shadow Minister for Overseas Development]]
| subterm2            = 1996–1997
| suboffice3          = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Transport]]
| subterm3            = 1995–1996
| suboffice4          = [[Shadow Minister for Women]]
| subterm4            = 1993–1995
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1946|2|15|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Birmingham]], England
| party               = [[Independent politician|Independent]] (since 2006)
| otherparty          = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (until 2006)
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Alex Lyon (politician)|Alex Lyon]]|1981|1993|end=d.}}
| alma_mater          = [[University of Leeds]]
| website             = [https://www.clareshort.org Official website]
| signature           = Clare Short signature.svg
}}
'''Clare Short''' (born 15 February 1946) is a British politician who served as [[Secretary of State for International Development]] from 1997 to 2003.

Short began her career as a civil servant. A member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] until 2006, she was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Birmingham Ladywood]] from 1983 to 2010. For most of this period, she was a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP.

Following the [[1997 United Kingdom general election]], Short was made the first cabinet-level Secretary of State for International Development. She resigned from [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|the cabinet]] over the [[Iraq War]]. She also resigned the [[party whip]] in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an [[independent politician]], leaving parliament at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article1523109.ece |work=The Independent |location=UK |title=Short to stand down after 23 years as an MP |first=Henry |last=Deedes |date=13 September 2006 |access-date=23 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118144636/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article1523109.ece |archive-date=18 January 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref>