©2020 Copyright Labour All rights reserved. Long-Bailey said "I had asked to discuss these matters with Keir before agreeing what further action to take, but sadly he had already made his decision. Defend us or expel us". [14], When Hazel Blears stood down as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles at the 2015 general election, the Labour Party decided to have a woman-only shortlist to choose its candidate for this safe seat. She said that "I don't just agree with the policies, I've spent the last four years writing them". [7] She attended Chester Catholic High School. To find out more about these cookies, see our privacy notice. Starmer was elected as the next Labour leader with a 56.2% vote share (275,780 votes). Long-Bailey received the backing of Unite the Union, Mayor of Salford Ian Stewart and former Salford City Council leader John Merry. Salford and Eccles is a constituency in in the North West of England. A spokesperson reported that she was moved to attend a Labour Party meeting after seeing "dramatic plans to dismantle" the NHS in her work as a solicitor. For information about when you should contact MPs, Lords, or other organisations/individuals, review the who to contact with my issue page. [3][47][48][49] Long-Bailey described Peake as an "absolute diamond", before using a second tweet to say that she did not endorse "all aspects" of the interview. [64], In July 2020, Long-Bailey joined the All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing. Rebecca Long-Bailey’s voting in Parliament. You appear to have JavaScript disabled in your browser settings. [16] On 18 September 2015, after Corbyn was elected as leader, she was appointed as a Shadow Minister for the Treasury as part of his first frontbench team. Originally a solicitor, Long-Bailey, escalated up the Labour ranks mainly thanks to her left-wing credentials. https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/. Rebecca Long-Bailey was elected as MP for Salford and Eccels at the 2015 General Election. [61] Long-Bailey's remarks prompted some users to include the hashtag #expelme in their tweets on Twitter in protest. "[3][51], Long-Bailey was one of six Labour rebels to vote against the successful renewal of the Coronavirus Act 2020, which continued granting the government emergency powers to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. [19] On Clive Lewis's resignation from the Shadow Cabinet over Corbyn's whipping of the Article 50 vote, Long-Bailey was appointed as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 9 February 2017. [15], Long-Bailey was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the 2015 Labour leadership election. Contact the Member at their Westminster address. [28][29], She was endorsed by Unite the Union on 24 January after general secretary Len McCluskey said she had the "brains and brilliance" to "take on" Boris Johnson. [56][58], In 2020, Long-Bailey signed The Labour Campaign for Trans Rights pledge, which described certain organisations as "trans-exclusionist hate groups", and called for people who supported those groups to be expelled from the Labour Party. [27] In the next stage, she received endorsements from 164 of 648 Constituency Labour Parties (25.3%) and 7 of 32 Labour Party affiliates, leading her to be one of three candidates listed on the ballot for leader, alongside Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy. [44] According to Jacobin magazine, Long-Bailey's support for the teachers' unions resulted in her being sidelined from representing the Labour Party in the media. [26], She received 33 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs, comprising 15% of members of the two groups, which is above the 10% needed to pass the first stage of the process. Long-Bailey announced that she would stand in an article for Tribune magazine on 6 January 2020. Long-Bailey was elected to the British House of Commons at the 2015 general election. [53][54][55], Long-Bailey said that she was unhappy with Labour's response to allegations of antisemitism within the party during Corbyn's leadership, commenting that "I don’t think we were dealing with complaints quickly enough". The seat has been held by Rebecca Long Bailey … Rebecca Long Bailey is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles, and has been an MP continuously since 7 May 2015. The seat has been held by Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour) since May 2015. [8], Her first job was in a pawn shop, something she says "taught [her] more about the struggles of life than any degree or qualification ever could". [10] She has worked for the law firm Pinsent Masons[11] and in 2003, she began working in landlord and tenant law for the law firm Halliwells; she was admitted as a solicitor on 1 November 2007 and moved that year to work for Hill Dickinson,[11][12][13] specialising in commercial law, commercial property, NHS contracts and NHS estates.

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