Bridget Phillipson
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Bridget Phillipson MP |
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Member of Parliament for Houghton and Sunderland South |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by |
Chris Mullin (Sunderland South) Fraser Kemp (Houghton and Washington East) |
| Majority | 12,938 (33.6%) |
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19 December 1983 Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Lawrence Dimery (2009-) |
| Alma mater | Hertford College, Oxford |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Bridget Maeve Phillipson (born 19 December 1983) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton and Sunderland South. She was the first MP to be declared to be elected to the 2015 Parliament, with an increased majority of 12,938.
She was educated at St Robert of Newminster Catholic School in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and from there went on to study Modern History at Hertford College, Oxford. She joined the Labour Party at age 15. In 2003 she was elected Co-Chair of the Oxford University Labour Club. and in 2005 graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Modern History.
Between 2007-2010 she was a manager for Wearside Women in Need, a charity refuge for women affected by domestic violence.
After entering Parliament in 2010 aged just 26, she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jim Murphy, then Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
Between October 2013 and September 2015 she served as Opposition Whip in the British House of Commons.
She was elected to the Home Affairs Committee in July 2010, and remained a member until November 2013. She is currently a member of the Public Accounts Committee.
From 2010 to 2015, she was Secretary to All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Domestic and Sexual Violence, which published the report The Changing Landscape of Domestic and Sexual Violence Services in February 2015.
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