Angela Eagle
Angela Eagle was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and is MP for Wallasey. Since 2011, she has been Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In 2010, she was made Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, after coming third in Labour’s Shadow Cabinet elections. Eagle is also Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party. She has held numerous government positions in recent years, working at the Department for Work and Pensions as Minister for Pensions and the Ageing Society (2009-10) and at the Treasury as Exchequer Secretary (2007-09). Eagle spent the period between 2002 and 2007 on the backbenches. During the previous five years she worked as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office (2001-02), Department of Social Security (1998-2001) and Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-98). Eagle was an Opposition Whip between 1996 and 97. She came out as a lesbian in 1997, the first female MP to do so since Maureen Colquhoun in the 1970s.
Between 1984 and 1992, Eagle worked as a press officer and researcher for the health services union COHSE. In 1991 she also chaired the National Conference of Labour Women. Eagle was born in 1961 and graduated from Oxford University in 1983.
Website: http://www.angelaeaglemp.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/angelaeagle
