[3] Squire was elected MP for Dunfermline West in 1992, replacing Dick Douglas, who had defected to the SNP two years prior.

[3] According to a profile on the BBC website, Rachel Squire was "one of the most committed and successful constituency advocates in Parliament".

In Parliament, Squire was a member of the Defence Select Committee and served as PPS to Education ministers Stephen Byers and Estelle Morris from 1997 to 2001.

[3] On 2 June 2005, she was admitted to hospital after suffering a stroke, thought to have been caused by bleeding stemming from the second brain tumour.

[3][5] Her death prompted the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, held on 9 February 2006, in which her former seat was won by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats.