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Rebecca Long-Bailey Biography-Wiki
Rebecca Long-Bailey is a British Labour Party politician and former solicitor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles since the 2015 general election. She has also served as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet since 2017.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Education
Rebecca Long-Bailey attended Chester Catholic High School. She then joined Manchester Metropolitan University where she studied Politics and Sociology, and then completed “various part-time law conversion and solicitors’ courses.” Her first job was in a pawn shop, something she says “taught [her] more about the struggles of life than any degree or qualification ever could”. She also worked in various call centers, a furniture factory, and postal delivery before eventually studying to become a solicitor.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Age|Birthday
Rebecca Long-Bailey was born on 22 September 1979 in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. She is 40 years old as of 2019. She celebrates her birthday on 22 September every year.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Family
Rebecca Long-Bailey was born in Old Trafford to Irish parents Jimmy Long who was a Salford docker and a trade union representative at Shell, Barton Docks.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Husband
Rebecca Long-Bailey is married to Stephen Bailey and she has one child.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Salary
She makes an income salary of between £77,379 to £79,468.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Net Worth
She is a British Labour Party politician and former solicitor who has an estimated net worth of 5 million euros.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Solicitor
Rebecca has also worked for the law firm Pinsent Masons in 2003, she then began working in landlord and tenant law for the law firm Halliwells; she was admitted as a solicitor on 1st November 2007 and moved that year to work for Hill Dickinson, specializing in commercial law, commercial property, NHS contracts, and NHS estates. In 2014, she was selected as a Labour Party candidate, she wrote that she had “been working as a solicitor with the NHS in Manchester for 10 years”.
The Sunday Times said that Rebecca was incorrect as she was the only solicitor since 2007, though she was also a trainee solicitor and paralegal from 2003 to 2007. She then joined the Labour Party in 2010. One of the spokesperson reported that she moved to attend to a Labour Party meeting after seeing “dramatic plans to dismantle” the NHS in her work as a solicitor.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Voting Record
Rebecca is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles and has been an MP continuously since 7 May 2015. She currently undertakes the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. This can be due to a number of reasons; The Speaker and deputies cannot vote because of the impartiality of the chair, and Sinn Féin Members have an abstentionist policy. A Member may wish to abstain or have a procedural reason for not voting. Members can be absent carrying out constituency or ministerial business or be unable to attend for other reasons.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Member of Parliament (MP)
Rebecca currently undertakes the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. After Hazel Blears stood down as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles at the 2015 general election, the Labour Party decided to have a woman-only shortlist to choose its candidate for this safe seat. Long-Bailey received the backing of Unite the Union, Mayor of Salford Ian Stewart and former Salford City Council leader John Merry.
She was then elected with a vote share of 49.4% and a majority share of 20%. She was also one of the 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the 2015 Labour leadership election. On 18 September 2015, Corbyn was elected as leader, and she was appointed as a Shadow Minister for the Treasury and as part of his first frontbench team.
She was also appointed to Labour’s National Executive Committee by Corbyn and as one of three representatives of the front bench, replacing Hilary Benn. Long-Bailey was appointed as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 27 June 2016 after resignations from the Shadow Cabinet. On Clive Lewis’s resignation from the Shadow Cabinet over Corbyn’s whipping of the Article 50 vote, Long-Bailey was appointed as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 9 February 2017.
She was again re-elected in the 2017 general election with an increased vote share of 65.5% and an increased majority of 40.2%. In 2019, she contributed to the writing of Labour’s manifesto for the 2019 general election. She then said that “I don’t just agree with the policies, I’ve spent the last four years writing them”. She was then re-elected in the 2019 election with a vote share of 56.8% and a reduction share of 8.7 percentage points on the 2017 election result.
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On 6 January 2020, she announced she was standing in the forthcoming election to be the leader of the Labour Party. Her flatmate Angela Rayner is running for deputy leader, the pair have made an agreement to run on an unofficial joint ticket. She received 33 nominations from Labour MPs and MEPs, comprising 15% of members of the two groups, which is above the 10% needed to pass the first stage of the process.
In the next stage, she received endorsements from 164 of 648 Constituency Labour Parties (25.3%) and 7 of 32 Labour Party affiliates, leading her to be one of three candidates listed on the ballot for the leader, alongside Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy. She was endorsed by Unite the Union on 24 January after general secretary Len McCluskey said she had the “brains and brilliance” to “take on” Boris Johnson.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Political views
She supports the right to abortion and she also voted for the repeal of the ban on abortion in Northern Ireland. She also does not support the difference in abortion laws on the grounds of disability, quoting that the Disability Rights Commission: and “the context in which parents choose whether to have a child should be one in which disability and non-disability are valued equally”.
She said that she was unhappy with the Labour’s response to antisemitism within the party during Corbyn’s leadership, where she commented that “I don’t think we were dealing with complaints quickly enough”. She then said that if she was a Labour leader she would follow the recommendations of the Board of Deputies in the British Jews and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
She has also spoken in favor of the “Green New Deal”, pledging in a speech to “fight for investment in the low-carbon industries of today and tomorrow to secure a liveable planet for future generations”. Long-Bailey supports abolishing the House of Lords, believing that checks and balances are necessary but should not be done by “a set of completely unelected people”.
She suggested that it should be replaced by a senate elected by proportional representation, which would analyze legislation with respect to “our wealth, our wellbeing, and our environmental sustainability”. Long-Bailey has said that she would be “prepared to use” the UK’s nuclear deterrent as Prime Minister, adding that “any leader needs to ensure that they assess the situation” and “address the consequences of their actions”.
Long-Bailey voted in favor of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. On the issue of a second Scottish independence referendum, Rebecca said that she would campaign against independence, but that she wouldn’t want to inhibit the democracy of people in Scotland. She has also said she wouldn’t support the workers in all strike actions and industrial disputes, “no questions asked”.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Political party
Rebecca Long-Bailey’s political party is the Labour Party. The Labour Party is a center-left political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has either been the governing party or the Official Opposition.
Rebecca Long-Bailey Office|Contacts
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Frequently Asked Questions About Rebecca Long-Bailey
Who is Long-Bailey?
She is a British Labour Party politician and former solicitor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles.
How old is Rebecca?
She is 40 years old as of 2019.
How tall is Long-Bailey?
She keeps her personal life private thus making it difficult to find her actual height, but the information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Is Rebecca married?
Yes, she is married and she is married to Stephen Bailey.
How much is Long-Bailey worth?
She is a British Labour Party politician and former solicitor who has an estimated net worth of 5 million euros.
How much does Rebecca make?
She makes an income salary of between £77,379 to £79,468.
Where does Rebecca Long-Bailey live?
She lives in England.
Is Rebecca Long-Bailey dead or alive?
She is still alive and in good health.
What is Rebecca Long-Bailey’s constituency?
Salford. Eccles. Salford and Eccles is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Rebecca Long-Bailey, a member of the Labour Party.