Baroness Amos left the cabinet when Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair in June 2007 . Brown proposed her as the European Union special representative to the African Union . However , Belgian career diplomat Koen Vervaeke was appointed to this role instead . She was a member of the Committee on Commonwealth Membership , which presented its report on potential changes in membership criteria for the Commonwealth of Nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in Kampala , Uganda
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos