Angela Eagle
 Angela Eagle       (Politician) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 February 1961 Bridlington, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Maria Exall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Labour Friends of Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Angela Eagle is Labour Party MP for Wallasey, where she was first elected in 1992.
She was Pensions Minister for a year under Gordon Brown, and was made Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2010 under Ed Miliband.[1]
Angela Eagle is one of twins, and was born 15 minutes apart from sister Maria. The pair became the first twin sisters to sit on the Government front bench in parliamentary history.[2]
Angela Eagle was made Shadow Business Secretary by Jeremy Corbyn, after his election as Labour leader in September 2015. Also, acting as Shadow First Minister, she would deputise for Corbyn whenever Chancellor George Osborne deputised for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions.[3]
She resigned from the Shadow Cabinet on 27 June 2016 in a bid to unseat Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition.[4]
Asked, as she left home on 30 June 2016, if she was launching a rumoured leadership bid, Ms Eagle said:
- "I will be saying something later today."
But a source close to her has told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg:
- "Jeremy Corbyn still has time to do the right thing."
The source said Ms Eagle will challenge him if necessary but hopes that he will go of his own accord.[5]
References
- ↑ Shadow Cabinet Election Results Labour Party, 7 October 2010
- ↑ "Shadow Cabinet Positions". BBC News. 8 October 2010.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Who is Angela Eagle? Everything you need to know about the MP who could challenge Jeremy Corbyn"
- ↑ "Resignation from the Shadow Cabinet"
- ↑ "Eagle may delay leader bid 'to give Corbyn time to quit'"
