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Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [22] In 2002 this method of selection was ruled to breach the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 .
Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.
Subsequently rejoined the Labour Party and served again as a Labour MP from 1939 until given a Peerage in 1945. William Stephen Richard King-Hall: Ormskirk: 27 October 1939: 23 February 1942: Elected in a by-election in a National Labour seat. Left the Parliamentary group to sit as an Independent. [8]
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She was featured in a Vogue article about 13 female Labour MPs who were elected. [56] During the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, she developed a significant media presence commenting on the situation in Gaza and UK arms exports to Israel. During this time she has become the MP receiving the most death threats and online abuse. [8] [57]
Longest ever serving female MP (non-continuous service). Chair of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, former foreign secretary (2006–07), deputy Labour leader (1992–94), Labour leader and Leader of the Opposition (1994). Previously served Oct 1974–79, and the only sitting MP elected in the October 1974 general election.
Apsana Begum was born on 25 May 1990 in Shadwell, to Bangladeshi Muslim parents Manir Uddin Ahmed and Syeda Nazma Begum. She has five sisters and a brother. [6]Begum graduated with a BA in politics from Queen Mary University of London in 2011, [7] and completed a postgraduate diploma in law and community leadership at SOAS University of London in 2012.