Member of Islington Council for Highbury West Highbury (1998–2002)
In office 7 May 1998 – 5 May 2005
Succeeded by
Theresa Debono
Personal details
Born
Mary Helen Creagh
(1967-12-02) 2 December 1967 (age 56) Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Political party
Labour
Alma mater
Pembroke College, Oxford (MA) London School of Economics (PhD)
Mary Helen CreaghCBE FCIL (born 2 December 1967) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield from 2005 to 2019.
Creagh was born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, where she attended Bishop Ullathorne Roman Catholic School. She studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford and European Studies at the London School of Economics. After interning in Brussels, she worked as a lecturer and charity trustee. She began her political career serving on Islington London Borough Council from 1998 to 2005. She moved to West Yorkshire after she was first elected as MP for Wakefield in the 2005 general election.
After Labour's defeat in 2010, Creagh was appointed to Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She was then moved to Shadow Transport Secretary in 2013 and Shadow International Development Secretary in 2014. Following Miliband's resignation, she announced she would run for Leader of the Labour Party in the 2015 leadership election although she later withdrew her candidacy. She resigned from the frontbench following the election as Labour leader of Jeremy Corbyn.
Creagh became chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee in 2016 but lost her Wakefield seat to the Conservative Party candidate Imran Ahmad Khan at the 2019 general election. After losing her seat, she was appointed as chief executive of national walking charity Living Streets in September 2020.
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2019 general election, Ahmad Khan defeated the incumbent Labour MP, MaryCreagh, to become the first Conservative MP for Wakefield in 89 years. Wakefield...
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for Wakefield from 1987 to 2005 when he stood down and was replaced by MaryCreagh. He went to Lawefield Lane Primary School, then Cathedral School (now...
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together with the three other Wakefield MPs (his wife Yvette Cooper, MaryCreagh and Jon Trickett), fought an unsuccessful High Court legal action against...
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Democrat MP for Burnley from 2010 to 2015, when he was defeated by Labour. MaryCreagh Coventry East 2005–2019 Labour Served as a Labour MP for Wakefield, an...
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father, Kenneth Roy Burnham, was a telephone engineer and his mother, Eileen Mary Burnham, was a receptionist. He was brought up in Culcheth and educated at...
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when the Conservative Party's Imran Ahmad Khan defeated the incumbent MaryCreagh. The Conservative Party expelled Khan from the party on 11 April 2022...
2013, respectively. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to MaryCreagh when she was Shadow Secretary of State for Transport until 2014. Glindon...
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November 2014 Leader Ed Miliband Preceded by Ivan Lewis Succeeded by MaryCreagh Shadow Secretary of State for Defence In office 8 October 2010 – 7 October...
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