Redcar MP Vera Baird could be making a bid to become a police and crime commissioner. Ms Baird served as Redcar’s MP from 2001 to 2010, when the seat was won by Ian Swales for the Liberal Democrats. Now Ms Baird is reported to be interested in becoming...

Teesside MP and Solicitor General Vera Baird is considering a bid to become Northumbria’s first elected police commissioner. The Labour politician, who lost her Redcar seat in the last general election, is understood to be seeking out views on a bid for...

Vera is a member of the Fabian Society Executive Committee and Chair of the new Labour Commission on Women's Safety, commissioned by shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper. Yvette Cooper described this Government, whose first budget took 70% of its cuts...

A partner’s affair could no longer be treated by courts as a

Parliament made clear two years ago that sexual infidelity should not be allowed as a defence for murder, whatever the circumstances. A partner's affair could no longer be treated by courts as a defensible reason to lose control and kill. However,...

Baird QC was the Solicitor General from 2007-2010, and the Labour MP for Redcar from 2001-2010; she is the co-director of Astraea: Gender Justice (Research and Education). She spoke at the 2012 Fabian Conference on women, politics and the crisis...