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Angela Crawley (born 3 June 1987) is a Scottish National Party politician. She was first elected as the
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(MP) for
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at the 2015 general election. Crawley has served as the SNP Shadow Attorney General since 2021. She was previously the SNP spokesperson for Women and Equalities and a member of the
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.


Early life and career

Born in
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, Crawley attended
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. She studied Politics at the
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, graduating with a BA degree. She then spent several years living and working in Brighton for the Educational Travel Group. After being elected to Parliament, she received an LLB degree in law from the
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. She first stood for election to
South Lanarkshire Council South Lanarkshire Council ( gd, Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1b ...
for the Hamilton South ward and was elected at the 2012 local elections with 1,255 first preferences and taking the second seat in the ward, exceeding the quota. In 2014, she was appointed as the National Convenor of the SNP's youth wing, Young Scots for Independence; also sitting on the party's National Executive Committee. In 2017, Crawley was named in the ''
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'' 30 Under 30 list for her work in Parliament. She very narrowly retained her Hamilton East and Lanark seat at the 2017 snap general election. In December 2016, Crawley stated in Parliament her view that "the law must be updated to recognise an individual's gender identity, which has nothing to do with their birth gender and everything to do with the gender they believe they are". Conservative MP
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described Crawley in his response "as a great champion on trans issues". Crawley has prioritised campaigning on LGBTQ+ Equality in Parliament. On 27 February 2017, she launched a new campaign for transgender and non binary equality. This involved her setting up a petition. In 2022, Crawley led a debate on 50 Years of Pride in the UK, stating that "trans people in 2022 are facing the same hate crime and discrimination that many of the LGBTI community faced in the 1980s," and asserting that LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. Crawley has called for victims of domestic abuse to be exempted from the child maintenance charge, and wrote a letter to the then Home Secretary
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on the issue in 2018. In 2021, Crawley launched a campaign for paid miscarriage leave in the UK including the introduction of a Private Members Bill on the issue along with a national petition. She reintroduced the Private Members Bill in the 2022 Parliament. On 15 June 2022, Crawley lead a debate in Westminster on the merits of introducing a
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(UBI).


Personal life

In February 2016, she was included in ''
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s group photograph of 28 LGBT MPs and peers.


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profile
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