Ms Mowlam was MP for Redcar but was well known for overseeing the negotiations that led to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The FT.com has a fitting Obituary:
Her status and for a time, at least, her personal power stemmed from two things: the bravura with which she embarked upon her first job as a minister even though she had not welcomed the Northern Ireland posting; and the bravery she showed in not allowing the diagnosis of a brain tumour to impede her political drive. She only found out she had cancer at Christmas 1996. Yet she insisted that she was prepared to fight the coming general election and then join Tony Blair's first cabinet.
She will be highly missed.
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