Liz McInnes

Liz McInnes
MP
Member of Parliament
for Heywood and Middleton
Assumed office
9 October 2014
Preceded by Jim Dobbin
Majority 5,299 (10.9%)
Personal details
Born (1959-03-30) March 30, 1959
Oldham, Lancashire, England
Political party Labour
Children 1

Elizabeth Anne McInnes (born 30 March 1959) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton since being elected at the 2014 by-election caused by the death of the incumbent MP, Jim Dobbin.[1]

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, she was educated at Hathershaw Comprehensive School. She studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford and completed a masters degree at the University of Surrey. Since 1981 she has worked for the NHS and was employed as a senior biochemist at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust until the by-election. She was Branch Secretary of the Pennine Acute Branch for the Unite Trades Union[2] and a member of the Healthcare Science organising professional committee.[3] McInnes has been a Rossendale borough councillor for Longholme ward where she was the health lead since 2010.[4][5]

She has lived in Rawtenstall with her partner, Steve Duxbury and their son, Sam, since 2000.[6]

In 2015, Liz joined the Labour front bench, being appointed by new leader Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government team, joining Jon Trickett, Steve Reed, Lord Kennedy and Lord Beecham.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Labour wins Middleton by-election, but UKIP slashes majority". BBC News Online. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Union fury as G4S ‘clean-up’ at Pennine Acute". Rochdale online. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Healthcare Science organising professional committee". Unite the Union. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Lancashire councillor Liz McInnes to stand as Labour candidate in Heywood and Middleton by-election Manchester Evening News
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Thoughts and stuff from a Labour Councillor in Rossendale". CouncillorLiz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  7. ↑ http://www.lizmcinnes.org.uk/labour_frontbench}

External Links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Jim Dobbin		 Member of Parliament for Heywood and Middleton
2014 ––present 		Incumbent


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