Pat Glass

Pat Glass
MP
Shadow Minister for Europe
Assumed office
5 January 2016
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Pat McFadden
Member of Parliament
for North West Durham
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Hilary Armstrong
Majority 7,612 (17.4%)
Personal details
Born (1957-02-14) 14 February 1957
Esh Winning, England
Political party Labour
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website Official website

Patricia Glass (born 14 February 1957) is an English Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham since 2010.

Early life

She was born in Esh Winning, County Durham.

Early career

Before becoming an MP, Glass worked in various positions with local education authorities, and became a Government Education Adviser specialising in Special Needs Education, and Assistant Director of Education in Sunderland and Greenwich.[1]

Political career

Glass was elected as a councillor on Lanchester Parish Council in 2007. Subsequently she was selected as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, with the retirement of Hilary Armstrong at the 2010 general election.

House of Commons

Glass was elected to the House of Commons at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Durham. Her particular interest is education and she has sat on the Education Select Committee [2]

In 2014, Glass accused rival politicians in Parliament of "orchestrated barracking" of women with regional accents, saying "I get the impression they think women who are northerners should not be there."[3]

In September 2015, Glass was appointed as Shadow Education Minister, with responsibility for childcare by the new Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.[4] On 5 January 2016, she was named the Shadow Europe Minister after Corbyn had conducted the first reshuffle of his shadow cabinet.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Pat Glass". Politics.co.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Profile, parliament.uk; accessed 12 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Morse, Felicity (17 February 2014). "Tories 'deliberately mock women MPs for their northern accents' says Pat Glass". The Independent. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Gaunt, Catherine (18 September 2015). "Pat Glass takes on shadow childcare role". Nursery World. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Jeremy Corbyn keeps Hilary Benn as shadow foreign secretary in reshuffle". BBC News. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2016.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hilary Armstrong		 Member of Parliament
for North West Durham
2010–present 		Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
Pat McFadden		 Shadow Minister for Europe
2016–present 		Incumbent
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