Kinnocks’ anguish at Glenys’s dementia – ‘Being robbed of our mother’

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Baroness Glenys Kinnock, 78, was often seem beaming beside her husband, now a peer, when he was opposition leader from 1983 to 1992.

The mother of two – an MEP for Wales from 1994 to 2009 – was diagnosed with dementia in 2017.

Her children Rachel, 51, and MP Stephen Kinnock, 52, said: “Our family witness the day-today cruelty of this disease, but the most painful thing is… she’s in the same room but we can’t get through to her.”

Lord Kinnock, 80, said the hardest part of the disease was “they are ceasing, very gradually, to be the person that they have been”.

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