[T]he tricolour is not my flag ... I genuinely don't feel Irish. Is there something wrong with that? - Kate Hoey

About Kate Hoey

Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey (born 21 June 1946), known as Kate Hoey, is a Northern Irish politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. By the late 1970s, Hoey was active in the British Labour Party and served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019. On December 14 that year, Hoey announced she had left the Labour Party and became a life peer the following year.