Kate Hoey
Kate Hoey is the Labour MP for Vauxhall.[1] She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sport.[2]
Background
Hoey was born in 1946 in Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were farmers.[3][4]
Education
Hoey attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education. She subsequently took an economics degree in London.[5]
She was elected a sabbatical Vice-President of the National Union of Students.[6]
During her time, as a student, Hoey was a member of the International Marxist Group.[7]
Political career
Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 and 1987 general elections.[8]
She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.[9]
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.[10]
In April 2008, Hoey agreed to act as an advisor to Conservative Boris Johnson if he was elected as Mayor of London. This led to a meeting with Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon, following which Hoey announced that her role for Johnson would be on a non-partisan basis, and she would be voting Labour in the Mayoral election.[11]
Along with Frank Field, Hoey was one of the first MPs to nominate John McDonnell during the Labour leadership election in 2010.[12] This was greeted with suspicion by some who questioned why MPs seen to be on the right of the party were nominating a figure associated with the left. The New Statesman's James Macintrye said of Field and Hoey: "Both are the subject of Tory dreams that they may defect"[13]
Connections
Joan Hoey, sister.
Resources
- Wikipedia: Kate Hoey
Notes
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Brian Viner, Hoey a tireless captain of the awkward squad, The Independent, 1 March 2003.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Ministers on the up, BBC News, 29 July 1999.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
- ↑ Sam Johnson, Labour MP denies defection in mayoral campaign, The Guardian, 30 April 2008.
- ↑ McDonnell gets first backing in Labour leadership fight, BBC News, 26 May 2010.
- ↑ Kiss of Death for Labour's most leftist candidates, James Macintyre, New Statesman, 27 May 2010.