Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Joyce Gwendolen Quin (November 26, 1944) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. She is member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West. Before she entered politics she was a French language teacher at Durham University. She was MEP for Tyne and Wear from 1979 to 1989, then entered the House of Commons in the 1997 election. She is a campaigner on the issue of a Regional Assembly for the North East. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.