Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
In office 29 November 2021 – 4 September 2023
Leader
Keir Starmer
Preceded by
Jo Stevens
Succeeded by
Thangam Debbonaire
Shadow Secretary of State for Housing
In office 9 May 2021 – 29 November 2021
Leader
Keir Starmer
Preceded by
Thangam Debbonaire
Succeeded by
Lisa Nandy[a]
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
In office 13 September 2015 – 26 June 2016
Leader
Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by
Tristram Hunt
Succeeded by
Pat Glass
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office 5 November 2014 – 13 September 2015
Leader
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (acting)
Preceded by
Michael Dugher
Succeeded by
Tom Watson
Junior shadow portfolios
Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers
In office 9 April 2020 – 9 May 2021
Leader
Keir Starmer
Preceded by
Bill Esterson
Succeeded by
Seema Malhotra
Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Years
In office 7 October 2013 – 5 November 2014
Leader
Ed Miliband
Preceded by
Sharon Hodgson
Succeeded by
Alison McGovern (Children and Families)
Member of Parliament for Manchester Central
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2012
Preceded by
Tony Lloyd
Majority
29,089 (55.6%)
Personal details
Born
Lucy Maria Powell
(1974-10-10) 10 October 1974 (age 49) Manchester, England
Political party
Labour and Co-operative
Spouse
James Williamson
Children
2
Alma mater
Somerville College, Oxford King's College London
Website
www.lucypowell.org.uk
Lucy Maria Powell (born 10 October 1974)[1] is a British politician serving as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons since 2023.[2] A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 2012.
Prior to her election, she worked in campaigning and PR roles for Britain in Europe, NESTA and the Labour Party. She was a shadow Cabinet Office minister and vice-chair for the 2015 United Kingdom general election campaign. She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education in September 2015, but resigned in June 2016. She served as Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers from April 2020 to May 2021, and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing from May to November 2021.
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Lucy Maria Powell (born 10 October 1974) is a British politician serving as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons since 2023. A member of the Labour and...
Phillips was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to LucyPowell, the Shadow Education Secretary, in 2015. A vocal critic of the former...
covered by Reed as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary and LucyPowell as Shadow Housing Secretary. As Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign...
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journalist Michael White as a "Brownite ally", and Labour advisor Jonathan Powell wrote that Lloyd was a key member of Brown's "team of henchmen on the Labour...
who in turn was succeeded as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing by LucyPowell. On 11 May 2021, Starmer's Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) Carolyn...
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our Shadow Cabinet". The Labour Party. Retrieved 20 December 2021. Fisher, Lucy (26 September 2021). "Angela Rayner rebuked by Keir Starmer for branding...
written by Katie Silberman, and starring Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Taye Diggs, and Lucy Liu. The plot follows two overworked assistants who try to set...
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was revealed in answers to a parliamentary question posed by Labour MP LucyPowell in November 2018. The option to choose to do so is no longer open to...
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necessary support and help to get off the street. Buckley criticized LucyPowell, saying her "words would have a negative effect on teenagers from deprived...
Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2020. Fisher, Lucy (13 April 2014). "The Government has a women problem – and its down to the...
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unpopular 1983 manifesto, dubbed "the longest suicide note in history". LucyPowell, the Labour campaign's vice-chair, was widely thought to have committed...
against BBC boss". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2015. "Labour's LucyPowell clashes with presenter Andrew Neil". BBC News. BBC. 29 March 2015. Retrieved...
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Bradford for the local elections 2018. It is represented in Westminster by LucyPowell MP for Manchester Central. The first councillors for the ward were elected...
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