Kate Hoey

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Kate Hoey is the Labour MP for Vauxhall.[1] She is also an advisor to the Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sport.[2]

Background

Hoey was born in Antrim, Northern Ireland, where her parents were farmers.[3]

Education

Hoey attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education. She subsequently took an economics degree in London.[4]

She was elected a sabbatical Vice-President of the National Union of Students.[5]

During her time, as a student, Hoey was a member of the International Marxist Group.[6]

Political career

Hoey contested the Dulwich consituency in the 1983 and 1987 general elections.[7]

She was elected to Parliament on 15 June 1989, winning a by-election in Vauxhall.[8]

Hoey served as Opposition Spokesperson for Citizen's Charter and Women 1992-93; PPS to Frank Field as Minister of State, Department of Social Security 1997-98; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Home Office (Metropolitan Police, European Union, Judicial Co-operation) 1998-99, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Minister for Sport) 1999-2001.[9]

In April 2008, Hoey agreed to act as an advisor to Conservative Boris Johnson if he was elected as Mayor of London. This led to a meeting with Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon, following which Hoey announced that her role for Johnson would be on a non-partisan basis, and she would be voting Labour in the Mayoral election.[10]

Along with Frank Field, Hoey was one of the first MPs to nominate John McDonnell during the Labour leadership election in 2010.[11] This was greeted with suspicion by some who questioned why MPs seen to be on the right of the party were nominating a figure associated with the left. The New Statesman's James Macintrye said of Field and Hoey: "Both are the subject of Tory dreams that they may defect"[12]

Connections

Joan Hoey, sister.

Resources

Notes

  1. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  2. Kate Hoey, Greater London Authority, accessed 5 April 2011.
  3. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  4. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  5. Home page, katehoey.com, accessed 5 April 2011.
  6. Ministers on the up, BBC News, 29 July 1999.
  7. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  8. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  9. Kate Hoey, www.parliament.uk, accessed 5 April 2011.
  10. Sam Johnson, Labour MP denies defection in mayoral campaign, The Guardian, 30 April 2008.
  11. McDonnell gets first backing in Labour leadership fight, BBC News, 26 May 2010.
  12. Kiss of Death for Labour's most leftist candidates, James Macintyre, New Statesman, 27 May 2010.