Ann Widdecombe
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Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a former British politician. She was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Maidstone and The Weald from 1987 to 2010.
She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election. From 1995 to 1997, she was the Minister of State for Prisons. Ann Widdecombe served in William Hague's shadow cabinet from 1997 to 2001 and retired as an MP at the 2010 General Election.
Throughout her political career, Widdecombe was socially conservative and converted from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in 1992 after the Church of England voted to allow female priests.
Widdecombe was a contestant in the 2010 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
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