Yvonne Helen Fovargue (born 29 November 1956) is a British
Labour Party politician serving 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
Makerfield
Makerfield is an area in North West England. It is now split between the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, both within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.
Pla ...
since
2010
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.
Early life and career
Fovargue attended
Sale Grammar School
Sale Grammar School is a grammar school located in Sale to the south of Manchester, England.
The school became an Academy Trust Grammar School in 2011. Admission to the school is through its own entrance examination.
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and obtained a
Bachelor of Arts
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in English from the
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
. In the 1980s, she worked as a housing officer on the Moss Side estate, before becoming the Chief Executive of
St Helens Citizens Advice Bureau
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, a role she held for over 20 years.
She also served as a local councillor in Warrington from 2004 until her election as an MP in 2010.
Parliamentary career
Fovargue was elected with a majority of 12,490 at the 2010 general election. She was appointed as an Opposition Whip in 2011 and served as Shadow Transport Minister and Shadow Defence Minister.
She was then appointed as a Shadow Education Minister with responsibility for Further Education and Skills in October 2014 following the resignation of
Rushanara Ali
Rushanara Ali ( bn, রুশনারা আলী; born 14 March 1975) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow since 2010.
She served as a Shadow Minister for International D ...
. She resigned from this role in March 2019 after voting against the Labour whip in a vote on a second Brexit referendum.
She supported
Owen Smith
Owen Smith (born 2 May 1970) is a former Labour Party politician and subsequently a British lobbyist, who has been the UK government relations director for pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb since 2020. Smith was Member of Parliamen ...
in the failed attempt to replace
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 ...
in the
2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.
Yvonne Fovargue is a member of the
Unite
Unite may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums
* ''Unite'' (A Friend in London album), 2013 album by Danish band A Friend in London
* ''Unite'' (Kool & the Gang album), 1993
* ''Unite'' (The O.C. Supertones album), 2005
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trade union and the
Co-operative Party
The Co-operative Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, supporting co-operative values and principles. Established in 1917, the Co-operative Party was founded by co-operative societies to campaign politically for the fair ...
.
Fovargue supported neighboring MP
Lisa Nandy
Lisa Eva Nandy (born 9 August 1979) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan since 2010.
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in the
2020 Labour Party leadership election.
Personal life
Fovargue is married with one adult daughter. She is also a member of
Mensa and an avid reader of crime fiction.
References
External links
Official websiteTwitter*
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1956 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 2010–2015
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2019–present
People educated at Sale Grammar School
Mensans
Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
People from Sale, Greater Manchester
21st-century British women politicians
UK MPs 2017–2019
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Makerfield
21st-century English women
21st-century English people