IOC CEO, Tracey Worth met Glenda Jackson as a transport minister many times between 1997 and 1999, (photo at DfT offices 1998) she reflects on an MP focused on transport who won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice. Glenda Jackson ceased acting to take on a career in politics from 1992 to 2015, and was elected as the Labour Party MP for Hampstead and Highgate in the 1992 general election. She was a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the government of Tony Blair.

Glenda Jackson resigned from the transport post in 1999 before an unsuccessful attempt to be nominated as the Labour candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000. In Labour's selection ballot, she came third behind Frank Dobson and Ken Livingstone, being eliminated in the first round of voting.