MP's gay ceremony
TREASURY minister Angela Eagle became the first female MP to tie the knot in a civil partnership today when she wed her partner of 18 years.
The 47-year-old Labour MP for Wallasey took part in a civil partnership ceremony with BT engineer Maria Exall at Southwark Register Offices in south London.
Eagle, the only openly gay woman in the House of Commons, kissed her bride in front of the 50 or so guests who had turned out to witness the ceremony. Exall beamed at her happily as they posed for photographs.
Eagle said she was delighted to be entering into a union made possible by the Labour Government's Civil Partnerships Act of 2004, which she was involved in bringing in.
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