Emma Reynolds MP |
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Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
In office 11 May 2015 – 12 September 2015 |
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Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) |
Preceded by | Hilary Benn |
Succeeded by | Jon Trickett |
Shadow Minister for Housing | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 11 May 2015 |
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Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Jack Dromey |
Succeeded by | Roberta Blackman-Woods |
Shadow Minister for Europe | |
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013 |
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Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Wayne David |
Succeeded by | Gareth Thomas |
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton North East |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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Preceded by | Ken Purchase |
Majority | 5,495 (16.2%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Wolverhampton, England |
2 November 1977
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
Website | Official website |
Emma Elizabeth Reynolds (born 2 November 1977) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton North East since 2010 general election.
Reynolds was the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from May to September 2015.
Reynolds was educated at Codsall High School, near Wolverhampton, followed by Wulfrun Further Education College. She studied at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, where she read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Her father Kevin is a teacher at Concord College, a boarding independent school set in the grounds of Acton Burnell Castle, near Shrewsbury.
Reynolds set up a lobbying business in Brussels to help British companies that wished to influence EU laws.
From 2001 to 2004, Reynolds worked in Brussels as a political adviser to Robin Cook then President of the Party of European Socialists. She later worked in Downing Street and the House of Commons as a special advisor to then Minister for Europe and Labour Chief Whip Geoff Hoon.