Debbie Wilcox
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| Alma mater | University of Wales | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour Party | ||||||||||||||||||
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Deborah Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox of Newport is a Welsh Labour Party councillor, and former teacher, who had served from May 2016 until September 2019 as Leader of Newport City Council.[1][2][3][4]
In September 2019, it was announced that she would be made a Labour life peer in the 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours,[5] and would be stepping down as head of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA).[6]
On 1 May 2020, Baroness Wilcox was appointed by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to a panel of three Labour peers (with Ruth Lister and Larry Whitty) to conduct an inquiry into the leaked report "The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019".[7][8]
Momentum chair Jon Lansman tweeted: "I'm deeply disappointed to learn that Baroness Debbie Wilcox, former leader of Newport City Council, has tweeted clearly factional support for anti-Corbyn statements by Iain McNicol & others, & for Labour First & Progress. She's therefore clearly unsuitable for the Inquiry panel."[9]
The Leaked Labour Report Inquiry is headed by Martin Forde QC and is expected to conclude in July 2020 when Forde presents his findings to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC).[10]
References
- ↑ "The people receiving Honours and becoming members of the House of Lords"
- ↑ "Ex-Tory MP and council leader to be made peers"
- ↑ "Newport Council leader Debbie Wilcox and Ex-Tory MP Byron Davies make Theresa May's honours list"
- ↑ "Newport council leader Debbie Wilcox given life peerage"
- ↑ "Resignation Honours 2019"
- ↑ "Newport council leader steps down after peerage"
- ↑ "Labour ask police to investigate claims staff worked for Tory election victory"
- ↑ Document:That Leaked Labour Party Report
- ↑ "Baroness Debbie Wilcox is clearly unsuitable for the Inquiry panel"
- ↑ "Labour appoints former QC to head leaked anti-Semitism report inquiry"
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