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Gill Furniss | |||||||||||||||
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Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 5 May 2016 | |||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Harry Harpham | ||||||||||||||
Majority | 12,274 (31.0%) | ||||||||||||||
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Member of Sheffield City Council | |||||||||||||||
In office 6 May 1999 –5 May 2016 | |||||||||||||||
Ward | Manor (1999–2004) Southey (2004–2016) | ||||||||||||||
Preceded by | William Jordan | ||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jayne Dunn | ||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||
Born | Sheffield,West Riding of Yorkshire,England | 14 March 1957||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
Spouse | Harry Harpham (died 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Leeds Beckett University (BA) | ||||||||||||||
Website | gillfurniss | ||||||||||||||
Gillian Furniss (born 14 March 1957) is a British Labour Party politician,who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough since 2016. She was a Member of Sheffield City Council from 1999 to 2016.
Gillian Furniss was born in Sheffield on 14 March 1957,the daughter of a steel worker. She was educated at the Chaucer School,Sheffield,and graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a BA in Library and Information Studies as a mature student in 1998. After leaving school,she worked as a librarian and went on to work as an administrator at the Northern General Hospital. [1] [2]
Furniss unsuccessfully stood as the Labour candidate in the Hillsborough Ward in 1998. She was subsequently elected in the Manor ward in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. With the introduction of new ward boundaries for the 2004 Sheffield City Council election,she was elected to represent Southey ward. She was re-elected in 2006,2010 and 2014 before standing down in 2016 upon her election as an MP. [3] [4]
As a councillor,in 2015 Furniss endorsed Andy Burnham in the Labour leadership contest. [5]
Furniss stood as the Labour candidate in Sheffield Hallam at the 2001 general election,coming third with 12.4% of the vote behind the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Richard Allan and the Conservative candidate. [6]
At the 2016 Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough by-election,Furniss was elected to Parliament as MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough with 62.5% of the vote and a majority of 9,590. [7]
In the October 2016 opposition front bench reshuffle,Furniss was appointed to the new position of Shadow Minister for Steel,Postal Affairs and Consumer Protection. [8]
Furniss was re-elected as MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough at the snap 2017 general election with an increased vote share of 67.3% and an increased majority of 19,143. [9] She was again re-elected at the 2019 general election,with a decreased vote share of 56.5% and a decreased majority of 12,274. [10]
Following the election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader in April 2020,she became Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. [11] She moved to become an Opposition Whip in July 2020,and served in the role until her appointment as Shadow Roads Minister in January 2022. [12] Her shadow transport brief covered green transport,transport decarbonisation,future transport and roads. [12]
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