Rose Barnes

Rose Barnes (born 28 February 1972) is a British politician currently serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since November 2011. She has been the Member of Parliament for Manchester Central since the 2001 General Election. Ideologically on the left of the Labour Party, she is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.

Born and raised in Manchester City Centre, Barnes joined Labour as a teenager. After graduating from secondary school, she took six years to get officially approved to practice as a lawyer, but only a year after that she became a councillor, which she did for six years before being selected as the Labour candidate in the safe seat of Manchester Central following incumbent Tony Lloyd being selected to run elsewhere in the 2001 General Election.

Early Life
Barnes was born Rose Scarlett Barnes on 28 February 1972 in St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester. She attended primary school at Ashbury Meadow Primary School, and attended secondary school at The East Manchester Academy, both in Beswick, Manchester. Following Secondary School, she took six years to fulfill the requirements to become a solicitor. She worked an entry level job at a large firm for about a year, before quitting to become a Councillor.

Political Career
In 1995, she was selected to run in the Ancoats and Beswicks ward of Manchester City Council. She immediately became Deputy Leader of the council upon her election, a post she held for three years. In 1998, she became leader of Manchester City Council and therefore got a seat on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. She remained in this position for three years until she decided not to run for re-election due to being selected as the Labour candidate for Manchester Central because the incumbent ran in a different constituency. Upon being elected to Parliament in a landslide, she was immediately named Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. She had a quiet first four years in Parliament, reportedly distancing herself from the New Labour frontbench led by Tony Blair. Following her easy re-election to the House of Commons in the General Election of 2005, she was named Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and The Courts by Prime Minister Tony Blair, and therefore ascending to the frontbench. In 2007, when Tony Blair retired and Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, she was named Minister of State for Immigration on Brown's frontbench, being the first to hold the post. In 2010, following the short lived ministry of Gordon Brown, Violet Carter became Prime Minister and named Rose Barnes to her cabinet, making her Secretary of State for Justice. She held that position for the few months before the 2010 General Election, where she again got re-elected and Labour again retained their majority. She was named both the Secretary of State for the Home Department and First Secretary of State in the Second Carter Ministry. She was a staunch supporter of Carter, but reportedly was the one that pushed her to resign after the cabinet shuffling controversy in August 2011. In the following leadership contest, Barnes won and therefore became Prime Minister after being invited to form a government by the Queen, forming the First Barnes Ministry. Not too long after, in August 2012, her government called for an election to be held in November 2012 so they could get a mandate. In the election, her Labour Party won a large majority, with the Liberal Democrats reaching their highest ever seat total and the Tories having their worst seat total since the 1760's. Following her government passing a Queen's Speech, they passed a bill that called for a historic Scottish Independence Referendum, with the Labour Party officially staying neutral but Barnes endorsing the 'Yes' option, the option that would result in Scotland departing from the United Kingdom. She has also expressed interest in abolishing the monarchy, making the United Kingdom federal, and legalizing marijuana.

Personal Life
Barnes resided in an apartment in Central Manchester until she received ministerial housing, sleeping in her parliamentary office when in London. She is the Great Niece of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who passed away in his sleep at the age of 97 at 10 Downing Street on 14 August 2013. The following day, her sister, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Maria Barnes, accidentally let it slip that Barnes was dating a woman on live television. The following day, the Prime Minister released a statement coming out as pansexual and saying that she was dating the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central Miah Charleston. They have been dating since early 2012.