Alexandra Louise Rosenfield Phillips

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Alexandra Phillips (2019)

Alexandra Louise Rosenfield Phillips , or Alex Phillips for short (born July 9, 1985 in Liverpool ) is a British politician ( Green Party of England and Wales ). Phillips has been Mayor of Brighton and Hove since May 2019 . From the 2019 European elections to January 31, 2020, she was also a member of the European Parliament and part of the Greens / EFA group .

Life

education

Born and raised in Liverpool, Phillips studied French Philology at the University of London Institute in Paris after finishing school . She then added a postgraduate degree in pedagogy and obtained a PGCE diploma from the Institute of Education. She then worked as a teacher for French and German at a secondary school.

politics

Phillips was originally a member of the Labor Party but joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2003 . Phillips served as the Senior Campaigns Coordinator for Caroline Lucas in general election. In addition, she worked for both Caroline Lucas and later Keith Taylor in the respective MEPs' offices in the European Parliament.

She was elected to Brighton and Hove City Councils in 2009 and has been re-elected three times since then. In 2019, the city council elected Phillips as mayor of the city. At 33, she became the youngest ever mayor of Brighton and Hove.

At the same time, her party had nominated her for first place on the European electoral list in the European constituency of South East England in 2019 after the previous Green member of the constituency, Keith Taylor, announced that he would no longer run. Your party won a seat in the constituency accepted by Phillips with 13.52 percent of the vote. In the European elections, the bizarre situation arose in which two candidates with the name Alexandra Phillips were on the ballot paper in the same constituency of South East England: Alexandra Louise Rosenfield Phillips of the Green Party of England and Wales and Alexandra Lesley Phillips of the Brexit Party. Both were elected to the European Parliament.

Phillips joined the Greens / EFA group , for which she was a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs . She was also an alternate member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexandra Phillips at South East Green Party. May 23, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Deputy mayor of Brighton and Hove tops Green party list for European elections. In: Brighton and Hove News. April 24, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Gary Dunion: Alex Phillips is first candidate for Green Party Deputy Leader. In: Bright Green. Retrieved May 31, 2012, July 12, 2019 (UK English).
  4. ^ South East: Alexandra Phillips. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ Cllr Alexandra Phillips: New Mayor of Brighton & Hove. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Opinion: I'm standing to be an MEP because voters deserve more than a sticking plaster for Brexit. May 22, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
  7. ^ Farage re-elected in the South East . May 27, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed July 12, 2019]).
  8. ^ Confusion as South East elects two MEPs with the same name. May 27, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Alexandra Louise Rosenfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillips, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (GPEW), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool