The former Lib Dem Minister tells Peter Stanford about leaving ‘high-status guff’ in Parliament to find a new purpose working with refugees and asylum seekers
Politics can be a rough old business, not least for all those Liberal Democrat MPs turfed out of their seats by voters at the 2015 general election. Sarah Teather, though, has had more time than most to find her feet post-Westminster. The 41-year-old former Minister of State for Children and Families in the 2010-15 Coalition Government had already decided that she would not stand again for election, citing disillusionment with some aspects of her party under Nick Clegg’s leadership.She spent last autumn on a temporary contract as an advocacy adviser to the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), travelling in Uganda, South
25 February 2016, The Tablet
Profile: Sarah Teather
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