Paula Sherriff

Paula Sherriff
MP
Member of Parliament
for Dewsbury
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded by Simon Reevell
Majority 3,321 (5.9%)
Personal details
Born (1975-04-16) 16 April 1975
Glasgow, Scotland
Political party Labour
Website Official website

Paula Michelle Sherriff (born 16 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury since gaining the seat from the Conservatives at the general election in May 2015.[1] Sherriff was previously a councillor in Pontefract on Wakefield District Council.

Parliamentary career

On 11 January 2016, Sherriff resigned as a ministerial aide to shadow local government and communities secretary Jon Trickett.[2]

On 21 March 2016, it was officially acknowledged that the "Tampon Tax" would be abolished. Paula Sherriff became the first backbench MP in Parliamentary history to have had an amendment to a Budget resolution successfully adopted. Both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Labour Party commended her work on the issue.[3]

She was appointed Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care in January 2018.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Election 2017: Dewsbury Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Labour's Catherine McKinnell quits shadow cabinet". BBC News. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Simons, Ned (22 March 2016). "MPs back abolition of tampon tax after Government accepts Labour amendment to budget". Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Paula Sherriff promoted to Labour's front bench". Huddersfield Examiner. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Simon Reevell		 Member of Parliament
for Dewsbury
2015–present		 Incumbent


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