Facts:   - profession: member of parliament    - leader: ed miliband ed miliband    - successor: tristram hunt    - party: labour    - spouse: barrie taylor    - predecessor: john -rrb- dudley fishburn -lrb- kensington -rrb- denham iain wright john wheeler -lrb- westminster north    - office: parliamentary shadow minister for education member of parliament for westminster north private regent 's park and kensington north -lrb- 1997-2010 -rrb- secretary to the leader of the opposition      - term end: 17 april 2013    - children: cosmo buck-taylor    - term start: 17 april 2013 8 october 2011 1 may 1997    - birth date: 30 august 1958    - nationality: british    - majority: 2,126 -lrb- 5.4 % -rrb-    - religion: roman catholic    - birth place: castlederg , county tyrone , northern ireland    - alma mater: london school of economics   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of karen buck .
karen patricia buck -lrb- born 30 august 1958 -rrb- is a british labour party politician who has been a member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- since 1997 , firstly for regent 's park and kensington north until 2010 , and for westminster north after that .she is a former parliamentary under secretary of state at the department for transport .