Vicky Foxcroft

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Vicky Foxcroft
MP
Member of Parliament
for Lewisham Deptford
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded by Joan Ruddock
Majority 21,516
Personal details
Born (1977-03-09) 9 March 1977 (age 47)
Chorley, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater De Montfort University
Website Official website

Victoria Jane Foxcroft[1] (born 9 March 1977)[2][3] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford since 2015.[4]

Early and personal life

Foxcroft studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in business studies at De Montfort University between 1996 and 2000.[3][5][6]

Foxcroft has lived in Lewisham Deptford since at least 2004.[5]

Political career

Foxcroft has been a Labour Party member since at least 1997,[5] and has sat on the Party's National Policy Forum.[5] From 2010 until May 2014 she was a local councillor for the Brockley ward on Lewisham Council.[7][8]

Foxcroft has been credited with helping the success of the campaign against the closure of University Hospital Lewisham.[9]

Trade unionist career

In 2002, Foxcroft became an officer at the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), continuing through the merger of the AEEU into Amicus in 2001, and through the merger of Amicus into Unite the Union in 2007. She was a research officer from 2002 to 2005; a political officer from 2005 to 2009, and a finance sector officer from 2009 until present.[5][6]

2015 election

Foxcroft stood as the Labour Party candidate for Lewisham Deptford in the 2015 general election. She won with 60.25% of votes.[10] Her campaign promised to "reverse the privatization of the NHS",[11] increase free childcare to 25 hours per week,[11] raise the minimum wage to £8 per hour,[11] and provide jobs to everyone unemployed for more than one year.[11] Her campaign criticizes "rip-off letting agents fees",[11] pay-day lenders,[12] the under-occupancy penalty ("Bedroom Tax"),[12] and the trebling of the cap on tuition fees.[12]

Foxcroft has been criticised for using Lewisham Council resources to publicise a Labour Party event in the 2015 election.[13]

Foxcroft made her maiden speech in a debate on the Scotland Bill on 8 June 2015, in which she quoted lyrics from The Red Flag.[14]

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 61230. p. 9116. 18 May 2015.
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  14. ↑ Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm150608/debindx/150608-x.htm

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Lewisham Deptford
2015–present		 Incumbent

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