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Stephanie Peacock | |||||||||||||||||
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Member of Parliament for Barnsley East | |||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 8 June 2017 | |||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Michael Dugher | ||||||||||||||||
Majority | 3,217 (8.5%) | ||||||||||||||||
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Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Birmingham,England | ||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Queen Mary University of London (BA) University College London (MA) | ||||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||||
Stephanie Louise Peacock (born 1986) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley East since 2017. A member of the Labour Party,she was a trade union official prior to her election to Parliament. She has served as Shadow Minister for Sport,Gambling and Media since 2023. [1]
Stephanie Louise Peacock was born in 1986 in Birmingham,England. [2] [3] She obtained a degree in history from Queen Mary University of London,and a master's degree from the Institute of Education,University College London. [4]
After graduating Peacock worked as a teacher,before going on to work on adult education in Yorkshire for the shop workers' union USDAW. [5]
Between 2007 and 2011,she served as the Youth Representative on the Labour Party National Executive Committee. [4] In 2007 she introduced Gordon Brown at the launch of his unopposed campaign to become Labour Leader. [6] [7]
Between 2013 and 2017,she worked as a Political Officer for the GMB trade union. [8] [9]
At the 2015 general election,Peacock unsuccessfully stood as the Labour Party candidate in the marginal seat of Halesowen and Rowley Regis in the West Midlands,where she was defeated by the Conservative incumbent James Morris.
A few weeks before the 2017 general election,she was selected by the National Executive Committee to stand for parliament in the safe Labour seat of Barnsley East when the previous incumbent Michael Dugher retired. [10] She was subsequently elected at the 2017 general election and re-elected in 2019. [11] [12]
Her maiden speech occurred during a Grenfell Tower debate during which she mentioned the local issue of Orgreave. [13]
In Parliament,Peacock has served on the International Trade Committee and the Science and Technology Committee (Commons). From January 2018 until March 2019 she served as an Opposition Whip. [14] She resigned on 14 March 2019 after defying the whip to vote against an amendment calling for a second Brexit referendum. [15]
Peacock has had two key campaigns thus far,changing the maximum sentences for death by dangerous driving from fourteen years to life and reforming the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to get more money for retired miners. [16]
In January 2020 Peacock joined Labour's Shadow Cabinet Office team as the Shadow Minister responsible for the Veterans' Office and Procurement. [17] Following the election of Keir Starmer as the Leader of the Labour Party (UK),she was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Fisheries,Water and Flooding as part of Labour's Shadow Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs team. [18]
Peacock endorsed Lisa Nandy in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election. [19]
On 14 May 2021,Peacock was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Veterans following a reshuffle. [20]
In 2013 it was reported that Peacock was in a relationship with Tom Watson MP,then Deputy Chair of the National Executive Committee. [21]
In November 2018,Peacock,alongside fellow Women's Parliamentary Football teammates,Alison McGovern,Tracey Crouch,Louise Haigh and Hannah Bardell,was rebuked by the then Speaker of the House of Commons,John Bercow,for having a kickabout in the House of Commons after Parliamentary business. Bercow said that the "historic chamber should not be used for this type of activity". [22] The team had been due to play their first match,but the game was cancelled because they had to be in parliament for a vote.
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