Alison McGovern
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Alison McGovern MP |
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Member of Parliament for Wirral South |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ben Chapman |
| Majority | 4,599 (11.0%) |
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Southwark Borough Councillor for Brunswick Park ward |
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In office 4 May 2006 – 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Lilian Naish |
| Succeeded by | John Friary |
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30 December 1980 Clatterbridge, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Ashwin Kumar |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Website | Official website |
Alison McGovern (born 30 December 1980) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Wirral South since 2010.
The granddaughter of songwriter and activist Peter McGovern, she was born in Clatterbridge, Merseyside, the daughter of a British Railways telecoms engineer father and a mother who was a nurse.
She was educated at Brookhurst Primary School, and then Wirral Grammar School for Girls, where she was the Head Girl from 1998-1999. She then studied Philosophy at University College London.
On graduation, she worked as a researcher at the House of Commons, before handling communications for development projects at Network Rail, then working for the Art Fund and Creativity, Culture and Education.
McGovern was first elected as a councillor for Brunswick Park in the London Borough of Southwark in 2006, later becoming the Deputy Leader of the borough council's 29-member group of Labour councillors.
McGovern was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Wirral South in December 2009, following Ben Chapman's decision to stand down at the next election for family reasons following adverse publicity in The Daily Telegraph over the expenses scandal, and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 general election, defeating the Conservative candidate, Jeff Clarke, by 531 votes.
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