Lady Amos Fast risen Blair "babe" at Straw's FO

Lady Amos ...Her meteoric (and to some, mystifying) rise through government ranks began as a whip in 1998, a foreign office minister in 2001, and international development secretary in 2003, the first black woman in the cabinet.

She was appointed Lords leader following the sudden death of Lord Williams of Mostyn in October 2004 .

Remembered of course, scuttling around UN member states in Africa to try and drum up votes for a 2nd Security Counci resolution to make the forthcoming invasiaon of Iraq legal.

Also Leader of Privy Council where she oversaw the House of Lords ruling about the rights of the Chagos Islanders to live on Diego Garcia. Curiously reluctant to answer questions about US "rendition" Gulags on DG.

She was chief executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1989 to 1994, and then director of Amos Fraser Bernard, a consultancy from 1995 to 1998 where she met Tony Blair in 1996 on a job in South Africa. Shortly after in 1997 Tony Blair ennobled her and she took the title Baroness Amos, of Brondesbury in the London Borough of Brent.

The 51 year old is unmarried and says the BBC online biog. “She is coy about her romantic life. "I have someone - he lives in his place, I live in mine."
"I think not getting married is something that happened," she says, adding cheekily: "I've not been asked at the right time." (Whatever can she mean?)

Will she be visiting Blackburn to support her friend Jack ? Well, ask him.

Someone e-mails to say Lady Amos regularly exercises at a gym