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Meg Hillier MP
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Member of Parliament
for Hackney South and Shoreditch |
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| Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Sedgemore |
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| Majority | 10,204 (31.7%) |
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| In office 4 May 2000 – 10 June 2004 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Jennette Arnold |
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| Born | 14 February 1969 Hampstead, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
Margaret Olivia Hillier known as Meg Hillier (born February 14, 1969) is a British politician and Labour and Co-operative Party Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch and a junior government minister.
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Early life
Hillier was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford where she studied PPE and during her time there was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union Society. She was not prominently involved in the Oxford University Labour Club. She worked as a journalist and was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Islington in 1994, serving as the Mayor of Islington in 1998, before standing down from the council in 2002. She was elected as a founding member of the London Assembly for North East London at the first London Assembly election of 2000, she served on the assembly until 2004, and became a board member of Transport for London, a position she relinquished on her election to parliament.
Parliamentary career
Hillier was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 general election following the retirement of the veteran Labour MP Brian Sedgemore. During the election campaign Sedgemore resigned from the Labour Party and joined the Liberal Democrats [1]. Nonetheless, Hillier held the seat comfortably with a majority of 10,204. She made her maiden speech on May 24, 2005, in which she noted that there were more men in the House of Commons today than there have ever been women MPs [2].
She served as member of the Northern Ireland select committee for a year until she was became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Ruth Kelly in 2006. In June 2007 she was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office.
In March 2008, Meg Hillier voted with the Government in favour of nationwide Post Office closures, including 7 in the London Borough of Hackney of which her constituency forms a part[3].
Personal life
She is married with two children, and resides in Islington, London.
External links
- Official website
- Internet Archive cache of 2004 biography from the London Assembly
- Guardian Unlimited Politics — Ask Aristotle: Meg Hillier MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com — Meg Hillier MP
- MP under fire for backing post office closures
- BBC Politics
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| Preceded by Brian Sedgemore |
Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch 2005 – present |
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