Kate Osborne

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Kate Osborne

MP
Official portrait of Kate Osborne MP crop 2.jpg
Member of Parliament
for Jarrow
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byStephen Hepburn
Majority7,120 (17.5%)
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Children2
ResidenceSouth Tyneside
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionRoyal Mail employee
WebsiteOfficial website

Kate Helen Osborne is a British Labour Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow since the 2019 general election.[1][2]

Career[]

Osborne worked for Royal Mail for 25 years. Her first foray into politics came in 2009, when she contested a by-election for Preston ward on North Tyneside Council, losing out to Conservative David Sarin. The following year, Osborne was elected to represent the ward at the 2010 United Kingdom local elections, gaining the seat from the Conservative incumbent. She was re-elected to represent Preston in 2014, and again in 2018.[3][4][5] She resigned from this position in 2020.[citation needed]

She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2019 United Kingdom general election, representing Jarrow, a safe seat for Labour. She succeeded the party's former MP Stephen Hepburn, who had been prevented from standing again over allegations of misconduct.[6] Osborne is a member of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group.[7]

In 2021 she was selected for the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, assigned to the Royal Air Force.[8]

Personal life[]

Osborne is known for being an activist and campaigner in the trade union and LGBT+ movements.[9] She is married to Pamela Brooks,[10] a former North Tyneside councillor, who represented Whitley Bay ward (based around the area of the same name) from 2010 to 2014,[3] and Preston ward (centred on the area of that name) from 2015 to 2019.[11] In the latter contest, Brooks gained her seat from the same Conservative who had defeated her partner in 2009. The couple served on the council at the same time, including four years in which they both represented the same ward, Preston.[12]

On 16 March 2020, Osborne became the second British Member of Parliament to test positive for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), after Conservative Nadine Dorries.[13] She was in self-isolation in her flat in London for three weeks.[14][15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Kate Osborne selected as Labour's candidate in Jarrow". LabourList. 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  2. ^ Swales, Martin (12 December 2019). "DECLARATION OF RESULT Election of the Member of Parliament for the Jarrow Constituency" (PDF). South Tyneside Council. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "North Tyneside Local Election results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. ^ "North Tyneside 2014 Local Election results". NorthTyneside.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. ^ Seddon, Sean (4 May 2018). "North Tyneside local elections 2018 - results in full". nechronicle. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Jarrow parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  7. ^ Rodgers, Sienna. "28 Socialist Campaign Group MPs urge reversal of Corbyn whip decision". LabourList. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  8. ^ "South Tyneside MP selected for Westminster armed services scheme". Shields Gazette. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  9. ^ Read, Carly (11 December 2019). "Labour members urge Corbyn to scrap election candidate who shared Theresa May gun picture". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Osborne, Kate". Politics.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  11. ^ Sharma, Sonia (7 May 2015). "North Tyneside local election results 2015: Who was elected in your area?". Chronicle Live. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Preston Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
  13. ^ "Second MP Kate Osborne diagnosed with coronavirus following self-isolation". ITV News. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Coronavirus: Jarrow MP Kate Osborne diagnosed with virus". BBC News. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  15. ^ Dickinson, Katie (2020-03-31). "Jarrow MP on how Covid-19 symptoms left her 'scared' as she struggled to breathe". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 2021-07-30.

External links[]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Stephen Hepburn 		Member of Parliament for Jarrow
2019–present 		Incumbent


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