Joan Marie Ryan (born 8 September 1955) is a British politician who served as
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
(MP) for
Enfield North
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from
1997 to
2010
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and from
2015 to
2019. She was first elected as a
Labour Party MP but later defected to join
Change UK
The Independent Group for Change, also known as Change UK, was a British centrist, pro-European Union political party, founded in February 2019 and dissolved ten months later, shortly after all its MPs lost their seats in the 2019 general e ...
.
Ryan studied
sociology
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and worked as a teacher, before becoming a
Labour
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
councillor on
Barnet London Borough Council
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The cou ...
in 1990, serving as deputy leader of the council from 1994 to 1998. She was a
government whip
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under
Tony Blair
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from 2002 to 2006, a junior
Home Office minister responsible for ID cards from 2006 to 2007, and the Prime Minister's Special Representative to
Cyprus
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from 2007 to 2008, when she was sacked. She lost her seat in the
2010 general election after an expenses scandal and was deputy campaign director of
NOtoAV
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in the
2011 Alternative Vote referendum.
Ryan was re-elected in Enfield North in the
2015 general election and became chair of the
Labour Friends of Israel
Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) is a group in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that promotes support for a strong bilateral relationship between Britain and Israel, and seeks to strengthen ties between the British Labour Party and the Isra ...
(LFI). She was highly critical of party leader
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialist ...
and lost a motion of no confidence put forward by her constituency party in 2018. She left Labour to join The Independent Group, later
Change UK
The Independent Group for Change, also known as Change UK, was a British centrist, pro-European Union political party, founded in February 2019 and dissolved ten months later, shortly after all its MPs lost their seats in the 2019 general e ...
, in February 2019. In September, she announced she would stand down at the
next general election and was subsequently succeeded by Labour's
Feryal Clark
Feryal Demirci Clark (; ' Demirci; born 6 January 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North since 2019.
Early life
Clark was born in Turkey to Alevi Kurdish parents with roots in ...
.
Early life and education
Ryan was born in
Warrington
Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
,
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
. She attended local schools before studying history and sociology at the
City of Liverpool College of Higher Education. She graduated in 1979 and went on to study for a master's degree in sociology at
Polytechnic of the South Bank
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, graduating in 1981. She taught sociology and politics in
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
...
at
William Morris Academy and also worked as an interviewer for the
Imperial War Museum in the 1980s.
Political career
Barnet council, 1990–1998
Ryan was elected as a councillor for the East Finchley ward on
Barnet London Borough Council
Barnet London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Barnet in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 within London. Barnet is divided into 21 wards, each electing three councillors.
The cou ...
, representing the
Labour Party, in 1990. She became chair of the policy and resources committee in 1994, before becoming deputy leader of the council later that year. She served on the council and as deputy leader until 1998.
Blair and Brown governments, 1997–2010
Ryan was elected as the Labour
Member of Parliament
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for
Enfield North
Enfield North is a peripheral Greater London List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency created in 1974 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, U ...
in the
1997 general election.
In her first years as an MP, she was known as an advocate for
Greek Cypriots
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in her constituency and in the Commons, and also as an opponent of
Ken Livingstone during the creation of the
Greater London Authority
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(GLA).
She sat on the board of the
London Labour Party
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and defended a vetting panel for mayoral candidates that was accused of bias. In response to Livingtone's campaign to get on the ballot, Ryan said "It is not acceptable. I think the public are fed up with it. He should wait his turn."
Ryan was appointed as
parliamentary private secretary
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to
Andrew Smith in 1998, and as an assistant whip in 2002.
A
parliamentary question
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from Ryan in January 2000, on the topic of businesses breaking the UN sanctions on Angola, led
Foreign Office
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Government
* Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries
** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government
** Foreign office and foreign minister
* Unit ...
minister
Peter Hain
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to name three businessmen who he claimed had been breaking the sanctions. In January 2001, Ryan voted in favour of a ban on hunting. She was appointed as a junior minister at the
Home Office in
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
's May 2006 reshuffle. In July, a report authored by Ryan was leaked to ''
The Mail on Sunday
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''; it said that a surge in immigration from
eastern Europe
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in 2007 could put pressure on Britain's education, health, and welfare services, and could also lead to "potentially serious" consequences for community cohesion.
From 2006 until 2007, Ryan was the minister responsible for the then government's controversial ID card scheme.
In April 2007, she launched a campaign to promote the achievements and financial struggles of 'supplementary schools', based on the concerns of Enfield Turkish School in her constituency, and she sent a dossier to
Andrew Adonis
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Third Blair ministry, Blair ministry and the Brown mi ...
to that effect. In June 2007, she became vice-chair of the Labour Party. She was also removed as a Home Office minister and appointed as the Prime Minister's Special Representative to
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
.
In July 2007, she was sworn as a Member of
Her Majesty's Privy Council
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, entitling her to the prefix '
The Right Honourable
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' for life.
In September 2008, she was revealed by
Siobhain McDonagh
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to have requested leadership nomination papers ahead of the party's annual conference. Ryan said that it was time for the party's "direction and leadership" to be debated openly.
Gordon Brown
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subsequently sacked her from her Cyprus and Labour Party roles.
In 2009, Ryan led delegations of MPs on two international trips, one to
Canberra
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is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
and
Melbourne
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in
Australia
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, and the other to
Cameroon
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. A man was acquitted of harassing Ryan in March 2010 on the grounds of insanity. Ryan, who lived on the same street as the man, had stayed away from her house with her family since January, following two incidents that had left her "terrified".
Expenses controversies
In October 2007, the ''
Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after be ...
'' reported that Ryan had claimed £173,691 in expenses in the 2006/2007 tax year, the highest of any MP in London. She had been the second-highest claimant in the previous tax year. In May 2007, Ryan had voted in favour of
David Maclean
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Early and later life
Born in Scotland, Maclean was educated at F ...
's Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, which would have kept details of parliamentary expenses secret.
During the
parliamentary expenses scandal, ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
'' revealed in May 2009 that Ryan had spent £4,500 of expenses on a second home in
Enfield
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* Enfield, New South Wales
* Enfield, South Australia
** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb
** Enfield High School (South Australia)
...
before "
flipping
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Within the real estate industry, the term is used by investors to describe the process of buying, rehabbing, and sel ...
" it with her main home, a flat in south London. Between 2004 and 2008, she had designated her house in Enfield, which was in her constituency, as a second home. She designated her main home during that period as a south London flat she bought in 2004. She had spent £1,045 on repairs and refurbishment to the second home in 2007/2008, and £3,624 on it during 2008/2009. The work was covered by the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA).
In response to the report, Ryan said that she had not made any claims for refurbishment on her south London flat and therefore had not "
flipped" the properties to maximise the benefit of the allowances. She told the ''Telegraph'' that when she was in government, the rules required her to designate her flat as her main home because it was closest to Parliament. After leaving government, she decided to change it to the Enfield house as she had "returned to spending more time" there.
In
Thomas Legg
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Biography
Born in London in ...
's February 2010 audit report of expenses claims, Ryan was asked to repay £5,121.74 for mortgage interest claims. By the time of publication of the report, she had only paid £322.45.
Wikipedia edits
''
The Independent
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'' reported in March 2012 that "at least 10 attempts" were made from computers on the Parliamentary estate to remove information about Ryan's expenses from her Wikipedia article. A further 20 attempts were made from inside her former constituency of Enfield North. In his "2010 Editing Wikipedia From Inside Parliament Awards", entertainer
Tom Scott gave the anonymous editor of Ryan's page the "Sweeping Things Under The Carpet Award". In November 2014, the ''
Enfield Independent
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'' reported that a section titled "Involvement in the expenses scandal" had been removed from her page. In response, Ryan said that allegations she had altered the entry were "categorically untrue" and that this was a "politically-motivated smear campaign against me
yan
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"
''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that the entire section about expenses on Ryan’s page was deleted by computers inside
Parliament
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in run-up to the
2015 general election. Ryan, though a
parliamentary candidate, was not an MP at the time.
Out of Parliament, NOtoAV 2010–2015
Ryan was defeated by Conservative candidate
Nick de Bois by 1,692 votes in the
2010 general election. After losing her seat, she was appointed Chief Executive of the Global Tamil Forum, and later became deputy director of the successful
NOtoAV
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campaign.
In March 2013, Ryan announced she was to seek re-selection by Labour to contest the Enfield North constituency at the
2015 general election. After her reselection, several constituents wrote to her local paper, the ''Enfield Advertiser'', suggesting that voters had not yet forgotten the revelations about her expenses in 2009. She regained her seat in the
House of Commons
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with a majority of 1,086 votes.
Reelected Labour MP 2015–2019
Labour Friends of Israel
In August 2015, Ryan became Chair of the
Labour Friends of Israel
Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) is a group in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that promotes support for a strong bilateral relationship between Britain and Israel, and seeks to strengthen ties between the British Labour Party and the Isra ...
. In the
2015 Labour leadership election campaign, she urged those voting to choose a candidate who in government could "play a constructive and engaged role in the crucial search for a"
two-state solution
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to resolve the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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. In particular, she noted the "deep concerns" that she said arose from the positions
Jeremy Corbyn
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had taken in the past and the "serious questions which arise from these".
In her position as chair of LFI, Ryan was filmed as part of an
Al Jazeera
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documentary on the alleged influence of the
Israeli lobby in British politics,
''The Lobby''. This documentary was cited by her
constituency Labour Party
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(CLP) in
their vote of no confidence against the MP; in ''The Lobby.'' The CLP claimed Ryan made false allegations of
antisemitism
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Antis ...
against the party based on video footage from the documentary.
She retained the position in February 2019 when she resigned from the Labour Party. In August 2019, she relinquished the role to
Louise Ellman
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Ellman was elected as a councillor o ...
and became honorary president.
She is also a Vice-President of the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group.
'Independent-minded' election campaign
During the
2017 general election campaign, Ryan urged constituents in her election literature to vote for her because she was "independent-minded" in the context of the perceived unpopularity of Corbyn.
She wrote in her election letter that constituents she had spoken to had more faith in
Theresa May
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as PM, than in Corbyn as May's potential successor. Ryan, arguing in line with most opinion polls, said she expected May's government to return with a much larger number of MPs, but that she was well placed to combat such a Conservative majority.
It was the fifth time Ryan and Nick de Bois had stood against each other.
No-confidence vote
On 6 September 2018, her Constituency Labour Party passed a motion of no confidence in her. It accused her of acting like an "independent MP in all but name", of making false accusations of
antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
, and of fuelling a "trial by media" by smearing Jeremy Corbyn.
Ryan said the motion had passed because of "
Trots,
Stalinists
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and
communists
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", who she said had entered the Enfield North Labour Party, and said "Just to be clear I will not be resigning. I am Labour through and through and I will continue to stand up and fight for Labour values."
The Independent Group
Ryan left the Labour Party on 19 February 2019 to join
the Independent Group
The Independent Group for Change, also known as Change UK, was a British centrist, pro-European Union political party, founded in February 2019 and dissolved ten months later, shortly after all its MPs lost their seats in the 2019 general e ...
of former Labour MPs, accusing Corbyn and the "Stalinist clique which surrounds him" of failing to provide effective opposition
and of "presiding over a culture of antisemitism and hatred of Israel".
Ryan said she had faced a "torrent of abuse" when leaving Labour but maintained that "those threats only strengthen my resolve."
In February 2019, the Labour Party reported Ryan to the
Information Commissioner’s Office, accusing Ryan of accessing party systems to contact members after resigning from the party. Ryan told ''The Guardian'': "Neither I nor my office have accessed or used any Labour Party data since I resigned the Labour whip and my membership of the Labour Party."
In September 2019, Ryan announced that she would not stand at the next general election. On 5 December, Ryan publicly announced that she would not be voting for Labour at the following week's
general election
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, citing
entryism
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as causing changes which meant she could no longer support the Labour Party. She also indicated that while she was not telling people how to vote there was "a huge risk if we vote for Jeremy Corbyn". She also called on Labour MPs to remove Corbyn as leader after the election.
Personal life
, Ryan lived in Enfield with her husband, Martin Hegarty, and had two children and two grandchildren.
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Alumni of London South Bank University
Councillors in the London Borough of Barnet
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Labour Friends of Israel
People from Warrington
UK MPs 1997–2001
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2017–2019
20th-century British women politicians
21st-century British women politicians
Change UK MPs
20th-century English women
21st-century English women
Women councillors in England
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom