Mary Helen Creagh is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher, She was educated locally at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry before winning a scholarship to attend Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied modern languages.
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- Mary Helen Creagh is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher, She was educated locally at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry before winning a scholarship to attend Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied modern languages. She finished her studies at the London School of Economics with a MSc in European Studies. She has worked with the European Parliament in Brussels and the European Youth Forum. She taught entrepreneurship at the Cranfield University School of Management from 1997 until her election to Westminster, and spent seven years as a trustee with Rathbone, a national charity. She was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Islington in 1998, becoming the Labour group leader (2000-2004), before standing down from the council in 2005. In 2002 Creagh instigated an investigation into cronyism in the appointment the Islington Council Chief Executive by five Liberal Democrats councillors. After the longest ever investigation by the Standards Board for England her complaint was rejected. Creagh was criticised by the tribunal as "heavily influenced by her political motives" and that she was an "insensitive witness, lacking in balanced judgment and one who was prepared to make assumptions about honesty and integrity of others without any proper basis". However Creagh defended herself saying she "blew the whistle because I believed the Liberal Democrats were not meeting the standards we expect from people in public office. I invite people to look at my evidence and draw their own conclusions. " . She was elected as an MP at the 2005 General Election when she succeeded the retiring David Hinchliffe. Mary Creagh was elected with a majority of 5,154 and has remained the MP there since. She made her maiden speech on May 25, 2005 using the occasion to raise issues of poverty in her constituency. She also remembered the locally born sculptor Barbara Hepworth. She was a member of the Human Rights Select Committee from 2005 until 2007, and has been the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy Burnham, since 2006. In 2007 she was among those MPs who backed Gordon Brown for the leadership of the Labour Party . She has been married to Adrian Pulham since 2001 and they have a son, Clement and a daughter, Beatrice . They live in London, with Mary spending weekends in her constituency. She is fluent in French and Italian and enjoys cycling and yoga. She is a member of the GMB Trade Union.
- Mary Creagh, född 2 december 1967, är en brittisk parlamentsledamot för Labour. Hon representerar valkretsen Wakefield sedan valet 2005.
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- Mary Helen Creagh is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher, She was educated locally at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry before winning a scholarship to attend Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied modern languages.
- Mary Creagh, född 2 december 1967, är en brittisk parlamentsledamot för Labour. Hon representerar valkretsen Wakefield sedan valet 2005.
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