Margaret Hodge

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Dame Margaret Hodge MP (2007)

Dame Margaret Hodge DBE (* 8. September 1944 in Cairo ) is a British politician of the Labor Party .

Life

Hodge comes from the German industrialist family Oppenheimer . Her parents were Hans Oppenheimer (1908–1985) and Lisbeth Oppenheimer. In the 1930s, because of the Nazis, they fled Stuttgart to Cairo , Egypt , where Margaret was born. Hodge studied economics at the London School of Economics . Her father founded STEMCOR (Steel Marketing corporation) in 1951, her brother Ralph Oppenheimer was a managing director of the steel trading company for 31 years and her son Nicholas Watson is a director of the company.

In the middle-class north London district of Islington she was involved in the district city council from 1973 and ultimately headed the city government for ten years. Hodge has been a member of the British Parliament since June 9, 1994 . From June 11, 2001 to May 9, 2005, Hodge was Minister for Youth. From May 9, 2005 to June 27, 2007, Hodge was Minister of Labor, succeeding Jane Kennedy . Hodge was Minister for Culture and Tourism from September 22, 2009 to May 11, 2010 as the successor to Barbara Follett . In May 2016 the media reported on a planned overthrow of left Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn , in which she should have played a crucial role. At the end of June 2016, shortly after the Brexit vote, she and other MPs called for Corbyn's resignation and justified it with the result of the Brexit vote and the allegation of weak leadership at Corbyn.

Hodge was married first to Andrew Watson and second to Sir Henry Hodge . She has four children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Debrett's People of Today
  2. ↑ Labor's struggle against the right-wing twist of their voters. In: derStandard.at. April 2, 2010, accessed December 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/2795061/Britains-biggest-private-companies-The-raw-materials-of-everyday-life.html
  4. ↑ http://www.stahl-online.de/index.php/stemcor-oppenheimer-scheidet-aus/
  5. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/margaret-hodge-s-fortune-hammered-as-vulture-funds-swoop-on-father-s-stemcor-steel-empire-9011445 .html
  6. ↑ Labor's Margaret Hodge accused of hypocrisy over tax affairs , Financial Times, April 29, 2015
  7. ↑ Barking Labour.org
  8. ↑ Revealed: plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn by using veteran Labor MP Margaret Hodge to spark leadership contest. In: telegraph.co.uk. May 3, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Labor MPs submit Corbyn no confidence motion - BBC News. In: bbc.com. January 1, 1970, accessed July 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hodge, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo