Kate Green

Kate Green
OBE MP
Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
In office
14 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Gloria De Piero
Succeeded by Angela Rayner
Shadow Minister for Disabled People
In office
7 October 2013 – 14 September 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Anne McGuire
Succeeded by Debbie Abrahams
Member of Parliament
for Stretford and Urmston
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Beverley Hughes
Majority 19,705 (39.3%)
Personal details
Born Katherine Anne Green
(1960-05-02) 2 May 1960
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Political party Labour
Spouse(s)
Richard Duncan Mabb
(m. 1985; div. 2006)
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
Website Official website

Katherine Anne Green[1] OBE (born 2 May 1960)[2] is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston in 2010.

Early life

Green was born in Edinburgh, to Jessie Craig (née Bruce) and Maurice Green. She attended Currie High School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree.[1][3]

Career

After university, Green began a career at Barclays Bank, working for the organisation from 1982 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999 she worked as a Whitehall and Industry Group secondee to the Home Office. Green was employed as Director of the National Council for One Parent Families between 2000 and 2004, then taking up the post of Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group until 2009. Alongside this, Green was a member of the London Child Poverty Commission, eventually serving as the commissioner chairing the body. Green also served as a magistrate in the City of London between 1993 and 2009.[1][3]

Politics and Parliament

Green joined the Labour Party in 1990 and stood unsuccessfully in the 1997 General Election as the Labour Party candidate for the Greater London constituency of Cities of London and Westminster. She contested the 2000 London Assembly election in the West Central constituency, again not being elected.[3] In 2009, Green was selected as the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Stretford and Urmston through an all-women shortlist following Beverley Hughes's announcement that she would not be seeking re-election.[4] She was elected as Member of Parliament on 6 May 2010 securing 48.6% of the vote, increasing the majority Hughes gained in the 2005 general election.

Since entering Parliament, Green has been elected as a Vice-Chair of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum[5] and serves as the chairman of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party.[6]

Following a reshuffle of Labour's shadow ministerial team in October 2011, Green was promoted to shadow Minister of State for Equalities at the Government Equalities Office, working alongside Yvette Cooper.[7][8]

In November 2011, Green was criticised for failing to declare an interest when tabling an amendment to a bill. Green had neglected to mention her membership of the GMB trade union when attempting to amend the Legal Aid Bill.[9] In a statement in Parliament Green apologised, saying: "I was advised on those amendments by the GMB trade union. My entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests makes clear my membership of and relationship with that union, but I regret that I did not draw attention to that last week in the Chamber because the amendments did not relate specifically to the union, but to the rights of individual employees." The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, accepted Green's apology, describing it as "most courteous" and insisting that the matter had been resolved.[10]

In February 2012, Green complained about a beer sold in the House of Commons Stranger's Bar, called Top Totty. The advertising plate on the pump handle featured an image of a bikini-clad bunny girl, which Green said "demeaned women". Leader of the House Sir George Young upheld her complaint and had the beer removed.[11] The beer, brewed in Stafford by Slater's had been recommended to the House in 2007 by Labour MP for Stafford David Kidney after a visit to Slater's Brewery.[11][12]

Following a reshuffle of Labour's shadow ministerial team in October 2013, Green was promoted to Shadow Minister for Disabled People.[13]

Green was re-elected in the 2015 general election on an increased voter turnout, managing to increase both the Labour Party's share of the vote and the size of the majority in Stretford and Urmston. Following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Leader of the Labour Party, Green was promoted again to the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet serving as Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities.[14] She resigned from this position on 27 June 2016.[15] Green became chair of Owen Smith' leadership campaign challenging Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 leadership election.[16] Green wrote in the New Statesman in September 2016: "Even when Jeremy gets that there's a problem, his solutions too often reinforce rather than address the root causes of gender inequality".[17] In a March 2016 speech, Corbyn advocated the decriminalisation of the sex industry "without any discussion or consultation with his shadow cabinet, with me as his shadow minister for women and equalities, with women in the PLP or, to the best of my knowledge, with anyone in the wider Labour Party".[17]

In December, 2016 Green became chair of the Fabian Society.[18]

Personal life

Green married Richard Duncan Mabb in 1985; the couple divorced in 2006.[19][3] Her recreations include theatre, books, food and swimming.[19]

She is a member of the GMB and Unite trade unions, the Fawcett Society, the Fabian Society and CPAG.[3]

Selected bibliography

  • Green, Kate; Bergmann, Barbara; Himmelweit, Susan F.; Albelda, Randy P.; Women's Committee of One Hundred; Koren, Charlotte (July 2004). "Lone mothers: What is to be done?". Feminist Economics. Taylor and Francis. 10 (2): 237–264. doi:10.1080/1354570042000217793.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Green, Katherine Anne, (Kate), (born 2 May 1960), MP (Lab) Stretford and Urmston, since 2010", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u42734, retrieved 2018-08-05
  2. ↑ "Kate Green MP". BBC Democracy Live. BBC. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Members of Parliament in Stretford, Manchester, Greater Manchester". Stretford & Urmston Messenger. May 2010. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  4. ↑ Downes, Robert (3 December 2009). "MP Bev welcomes her new replacement". Stretford & Urmston Messenger. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "We must reach out: An NEC member reports from Gillingham". labour-uncut.co.uk. Labour Uncut. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Prince, Rosa (24 January 2011). "Dominic Raab: men should 'burn their briefs' in protest at 'obnoxious feminist bigots'". The Daily Telegraph.
  7. ↑ "Her Majesty's Official Opposition". UK Parliament.
  8. ↑ Woodhouse, Craig (10 October 2011). "Labour takes down Blair and Brown pictures in HQ clear-out". London Evening Standard | Politics. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  9. ↑ Ridge, Sophy (9 November 2011). "Tories pursue Labour on Union links (blog)". Sky News | Our Blogs. Archived from the original on 12 November 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  10. ↑ Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston (9 November 2011). "Points of Order". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. col. 307.
  11. 1 2 Staff writer (2 February 2012). "Top Totty beer banned from House of Commons bar in case if offends women". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  12. ↑ Kidney, David (12 June 2007). "Slater's Beer - what all the MPs are drinking" (PDF). News release from David Kidney MP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  13. ↑ "Visit from Shadow MP for Disabilities". newcollegeworcester.co.uk. New College Worcester. 24 November 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  14. ↑ Walker, Peter (16 September 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet in full". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  15. ↑ Syal, Rajeev; Perraudin, Frances (27 June 2016). "Shadow cabinet resignations: who has gone and who is staying". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  16. ↑ Pope, Conor (22 July 2016). "Owen Smith snaps up former Corbyn policy chief for leadership bid". LabourList. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  17. 1 2 Green, Kate (2 September 2016). "Jeremy Corbyn still doesn't get our concerns about sexist abuse". New Statesman. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  18. ↑ Bean, Emma (8 December 2016). "Fabians name centre-left former shadow minister Kate Green as new chair". LabourList. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  19. 1 2 "Who's Who". www.ukwhoswho.com.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Beverley Hughes		 Member of Parliament
for Stretford and Urmston
2010–present		 Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Gloria De Piero		 Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
2015–2016		 Succeeded by
Angela Rayner
Party political offices
Preceded by
Seema Malhotra		 Chair of the Fabian Society
2016–present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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