Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley

Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley

Christine Mary Crawley, Baroness Crawley FRSA (born January 9, 1950 ) is a British Labor Party politician and life peer.

biography

Crawley attended the Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School in Birmingham and then studied to become a teacher at Digby Stuart College . After graduating, she taught children between the ages of 9 and 15 and also supervised a youth theater. When she was looking for support for the theater project, she came into contact with local politicians; she began to get involved in politics and became a member of the Labor Party . Shortly after joining, she became the chairman of the local association and was responsible for the local association's women's group. She was elected District Councilor in South Oxfordshire at a time when the Labor Party was a minority party in the district.

In 1983 she ran for a seat in the House of Commons , but did not achieve a majority. She spent another year in local politics and then successfully ran for a seat in the European Parliament for the Birmingham East constituency . She sat in the European Parliament from 1984 to 1999. She was on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality . After the end of her parliamentary term in the European Parliament, she sat in the regional parliament of the West Midlands Regional. In 1998 she was raised to Baroness Crawley , of Edgbaston in the County of West Midlands. From 2002 to 2008 she was whip her party in the House of Lords .

Web links

• Entry for Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley in the database of Members of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Mary (?), Baroness Crawley on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Women in Decision-making - Interview - Crawley . European Database - Women in Decision-making. Retrieved May 2, 2009.