Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has opened up about his wife Glenys’ battle with Alzheimer’s. He described the former politician as a "highly articulate, immensely lively, funny woman with some style, a brilliant cook, wonderful mother and grandmother," but said she is "ceasing gradually to be the person she used to be".
He said his wife, a former teacher was MEP for Wales from 1994 to 2009 and then served as Minister of State for Europe and Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations. The couple's son Stephen is MP for Aberavon.
Asked during a Talk TV interview about the toughest part of her diagnosis, Lord Kinnock said: "The inevitability of the knowledge that the change is going to continue. They are ceasing very gradually to be the person that they have been. Now your main concern is for what that means to them, here is a highly articulate, immensely lively, funny woman with some style, a brilliant cook, wonderful mother and grandmother and in all of those areas of her life, she has lost capability and of course, Glenys was one of those people who prided herself enormously on her capability.
