Kate Hoey - Revision history

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−	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) has been the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall 1989.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>	+	'''Kate Hoey''' (Born 26 June 1946) has been the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall 1989.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>

	Hoey retained her constituency seat in the 2015 general election with a majority of 12,708. <ref> [http://www.express.co.uk/politics/politicians/labour/kate-hoey/587 Kate Hoey] ''Express'', accessed 15 May 2015 </ref>		Hoey retained her constituency seat in the 2015 general election with a majority of 12,708. <ref> [http://www.express.co.uk/politics/politicians/labour/kate-hoey/587 Kate Hoey] ''Express'', accessed 15 May 2015 </ref>

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	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) has been the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall 1989.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>		[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) has been the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall 1989.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>
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		+	Hoey retained her constituency seat in the 2015 general election with a majority of 12,708. <ref> [http://www.express.co.uk/politics/politicians/labour/kate-hoey/587 Kate Hoey] ''Express'', accessed 15 May 2015 </ref>

	==Background==		==Background==

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−	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) is the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>	+	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) has been the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall 1989.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>

	==Background==		==Background==

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−	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) is the Labour MP for Vauxhall.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>	+	[[Kate Hoey]] (Born 26 June 1946) is the [[Labour Party]] member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor [[Boris Johnson]] on Sport.<ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/mayoral-team/kate-hoey Kate Hoey], Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>

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 Dudley Edwards went on to write:
 ::Sensible tendency MPs such as Kate Hoey and Nick Raynsford believe it is democratically imperative that Labour should - like the Conservatives - allow people in Northern Ireland to join the party. Since the Social Democratic and Labour Party is tribal and socially conservative, socialists are virtually disfranchised.<ref>Ruth Dudley Edwards, Tony, Abandon the Emerald Isle, The Independent, 23 August 1993.</ref>
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 ==Background==
-Hoey was born in 1946 in the village of Roughfort, Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were pig farmers.<ref>[http://www.katehoey.com/ Home page], katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref><ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref><ref name="Probert">Sarah Probert RURAL LIVING: Rebel MP's passion for countryside; After announcing plans to encourage inner-city children to take up shooting in the countryside, Kate Hoey MP talks to Rural Affairs reporter Sarah Probert about her passion for a prosperous countrysideBirmingham Post'' January 24, 2006, Tuesday First Edition FEATURES; Pg. 4</ref><ref>[http://www.gotobelfast.com/PDF/The%20famous%20faces%20of%20North%20Belfast.pdf The Famous Faces of North Belfast, Renewing Communities Visitor Servicing Project, 2008.</ref>
+Hoey was born in 1946 in the village of Roughfort, Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were pig farmers.<ref>[http://www.katehoey.com/ Home page], katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref><ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref><ref name="Probert">Sarah Probert RURAL LIVING: Rebel MP's passion for countryside; After announcing plans to encourage inner-city children to take up shooting in the countryside, Kate Hoey MP talks to Rural Affairs reporter Sarah Probert about her passion for a prosperous countrysideBirmingham Post'' January 24, 2006, Tuesday First Edition FEATURES; Pg. 4</ref><ref>[http://www.gotobelfast.com/PDF/The%20famous%20faces%20of%20North%20Belfast.pdf The Famous Faces of North Belfast, Renewing Communities Visitor Servicing Project, 2008.</ref> She grew up with an elder sister and a younger brother who was born when she was 17.<ref>Louise Atkinson, I HOPE THAT SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE FANCIES ME; LABOUR MP KATE HOEY TALKS ABOUT KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, Daily Mail, 15 December 1992.</ref>
 She has said of this period:
-::I had a happy childhood. I was a real tomboy and I loved the countryside. We weren't privileged; we were really very poor. It was a treat if my mum went into Belfast and and brought us back a pencil or a bar of chocolate. But we were never short of food because of all the eggs, milk, butter and vegetables we from the farm.<ref>Louise Atkinson, I HOPE THAT SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE FANCIES ME;
+::I had a happy childhood. I was a real tomboy and I loved the countryside. We weren't privileged; we were really very poor. It was a treat if my mum went into Belfast and and brought us back a pencil or a bar of chocolate. But we were never short of food because of all the eggs, milk, butter and vegetables we from the farm.<ref>Louise Atkinson, I HOPE THAT SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE FANCIES ME; LABOUR MP KATE HOEY TALKS ABOUT KEEPING UP APPEARANCES, Daily Mail, 15 December 1992.</ref>
 According to the ''Birmingham Post'' during her childhood on the farm:

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 ==Background==
-Hoey was born in 1946 in Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were pig farmers.<ref>[http://www.katehoey.com/ Home page], katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref><ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref><ref name="Probert">Sarah Probert RURAL LIVING: Rebel MP's passion for countryside; After announcing plans to encourage inner-city children to take up shooting in the countryside, Kate Hoey MP talks to Rural Affairs reporter Sarah Probert about her passion for a prosperous countrysideBirmingham Post'' January 24, 2006, Tuesday First Edition FEATURES; Pg. 4</ref>
+Hoey was born in 1946 in the village of Roughfort, Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were pig farmers.<ref>[http://www.katehoey.com/ Home page], katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref><ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref><ref name="Probert">Sarah Probert RURAL LIVING: Rebel MP's passion for countryside; After announcing plans to encourage inner-city children to take up shooting in the countryside, Kate Hoey MP talks to Rural Affairs reporter Sarah Probert about her passion for a prosperous countrysideBirmingham Post'' January 24, 2006, Tuesday First Edition FEATURES; Pg. 4</ref><ref>[http://www.gotobelfast.com/PDF/The%20famous%20faces%20of%20North%20Belfast.pdf The Famous Faces of North Belfast, Renewing Communities Visitor Servicing Project, 2008.</ref>
 She has said of this period:
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 :"I had an idyllic childhood but not a rich childhood," she says in her still undiminished Northern Irish accent. She climbed trees and fished in the river and rode the family's horse. The horse was a working animal, used to pull a cart for jobs like clearing out the hen house and there was no money for a saddle.
-:Kate and her [[Joan Hoey|sister]] used to ride bareback, vying with each other for the chance to ride the three-and-a-half miles to the local blacksmith when the horse needed re-shoeing - and returning at a much faster pace than on their outward journey
+:Kate and her sister used to ride bareback, vying with each other for the chance to ride the three-and-a-half miles to the local blacksmith when the horse needed re-shoeing - and returning at a much faster pace than on their outward journey
 :She experienced the treat of riding with a proper saddle only when she came to England years later...

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 She served a councillor in Southwark from 1988 to 1989.<ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref> At the time of her election, she was working as a freelance sports writer.<ref>Jane Slade, War of Words, The Times, 2 November 1988.</ref>
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 In 1989, Hoey was nominated to contest Vauxhall for Labour in 1989. The ''Guardian'' later reported:
 ::She got the Vauxhall nomination in 1989 (having failed by a mere 180 votes at Dulwich in 1987) as [[Neil Kinnock]]'s nominee. The local party, who wanted a black candidate, had been told that its choice was unacceptable to the hierarchy.<ref>Pass Notes No.563: Kate Hoey, The Guardian, 1 February 1995.</ref>
-She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>
+Some black activists said they would boycott the campaign:
 Hoey served as Opposition Spokesperson for Citizen's Charter and Women 1992-93; PPS to [[Frank Field]] as Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1997-98; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Home Office (Metropolitan Police, European Union, Judicial Co-operation) 1998-99, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Minister for Sport) 1999-2001.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>

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 She served as a councillor in the London Borough of Hackney from 1978 to 1982.<ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref>
-Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 and 1987 general elections.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref> In 1987, she was defeated by just 180 votes, the smallest majority in the country.<ref>Jane Slade, War of Words, The Times, 2 November 1988.</ref>
+Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 general election.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>
 She served a councillor in Southwark from 1988 to 1989.<ref>Brian Viner, [http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/hoey-a-tireless-captain-of-the-awkward-squad-599074.html Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad], The Independent, 1 March 2003.</ref> At the time of her election, she was working as a freelance sports writer.<ref>Jane Slade, War of Words, The Times, 2 November 1988.</ref>
 She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/kate-hoey/25608 Kate Hoey], www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.</ref>