Flo Clucas

Helen Flora Clucas OBE (born 9 May 1947), known as Flo Clucas (née Turner), is a British local politician in Cheltenham, England, previously in Liverpool.

Early life Born in Everton, Liverpool, on 9 May 1947, Clucas was educated at Bellerive Girls' Convent School, By 1987, she was the SDP parliamentary candidate for Halton and was interviewed by the New Statesman, saying that she had "a passionately Tory grandmother who taught her that Labour meant bolshevism", but she had rejected the Tories as "racist and harsh".

In 1998, the Liverpool Liberal Democrats took control of the city council and Clucas became its deputy leader, with Mike Storey as leader. In 1994, she stood for the European Parliament in Merseyside East and Wigan, and in 2004 stood in North West England. Through the political balance of the Local Government Association, by 2001 she had been appointed to the European Union's Committee of the Regions and took an active role in it. She worked on reports on regional and housing policy and in 2008 became the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, but ceased to be a member in 2012. At that election, her party lost almost all its seats in Liverpool. In May 2014, she held a Liberal Democrat seat in the 2014 Cheltenham Borough Council election.

Personal life Clucas met her husband, John Clucas at the Cavern Club in the early 1960s. They were married in Liverpool in 1968 Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Liverpool, July 2013.