Anna Turley MP | |
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Turley in 2017 | |
Member of Parliament for Redcar | |
Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
Preceded by | Ian Swales |
Majority | 9,485 (22.3%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Dartford, England | 9 October 1978
Political party | Labour Co-operative Script error: No such module "Officeholder party tracking". |
Anna Catherine Turley[1] (born 9 October 1978) is a British Labour Co-operative politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar since the 2015 general election.[2]
Early career
Turley was formerly a civil servant, initially working on youth crime issues, and later moved to the Department for Work and Pensions specialising in child poverty issues.[3]
Political career
From 2001 to 2005, Turley was a fast-stream civil servant at the Home Office. In 2005, she then became a special adviser in the Department for Work and Pensions under David Blunkett, then in 2006 the Cabinet Office under Hilary Armstrong.[3][4] In 2006, she stood for election as a Labour council candidate for Wandsworth Common.[5]
In 2007, Turley worked for public relations agency The Ledbury Group.[6] In April 2008, she became deputy director of the local government research organisation the New Local Government Network,[6] and in 2010 co-founded the Co-operative Councils Innovation Network designed to enable local authorities to work in partnership with local communities.[3][7]
Turley was shortlisted for the North West Durham seat for the 2010 general election but lost out to Pat Glass.[8] In 2011, Turley founded a consultancy and online forum ProgLoc (Progressive Localism) for progressive debate of key issues affecting local government,[9][10][11] and became an associate researcher for the NGO Future of London.[12][13] In 2012 Turley was listed as a speaker for the New Labour pressure group Progress.[14] In 2013, Turley became a senior research fellow at IPPR North.[15]
In 2013, Turley was selected to stand in the Redcar constituency from an all-women shortlist,[4] in a contentious selection that ultimately was associated with the resignation of ten Labour councillors.[16][17]
After becoming the member of parliament for Redcar at the May 2015 general election, Turley was appointed as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee in July 2015.[18] She supported Andy Burnham in the 2015 leadership election.[19]
Soon after becoming an MP, Turley had to respond to major local employer SSI UK, which operated Teesside Steelworks, going into liquidation,[20][21] leading to about 3,000 local job losses. The steelworks had once employed about 40,000.[22]
In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.[3] Turley resigned in June 2016 as part of a mass shadow cabinet resignation in protest at Corbyn's leadership.[23] In the 2016 leadership election campaign soon afterwards, Turley was critical of Corbyn stating he was "completely out of touch with reality", and supported Owen Smith for leader.[24]
In October 2016, Turley joined the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.[25] She introduced a Private Members Bill to increase the maximum sentences available to the courts for specified offences related to animal cruelty to five years.[26]
In the 2017 general election, Turley was re-elected with 23,623 votes, a share of 55.5%.[27] In November 2017, it was announced that Turley had withdrawn from work at Westminster for the rest of the year in order to recuperate following emergency surgery.[28]
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