Jenny Chapman
Member of Parliament for Darlington | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 6 May 2010 – 12 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Alan Milburn | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Peter Gibson | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Member of Darlington Council for Cockerton West | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 3 May 2007 – May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jan Cossins | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Jennifer Chapman 25 September 1973 Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jennifer Chapman, Baroness Chapman of Darlington (born 25 September 1973) is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 2010 to 2019.
Chapman was political secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer, from 2020 to 2021. As a shadow Cabinet Office minister from 2021 to 2023, she served as a member of the shadow cabinet. She was appointed Chancellor of Teesside University in 2023.
Early life and career
Chapman was born in September 1973 in
Chapman worked as constituency office manager for Darlington
House of Commons
In November 2009, Chapman was shortlisted as one of four candidates to succeed Milburn as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Darlington on an open shortlist, i.e. not an all-women shortlist.[5] She was selected to stand for parliament by the local constituency party the following month. She was elected Darlington MP in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,388.[6] As a result of her election victory, she decided to stand down as a councillor.[7]
Chapman made her
In 2011, Chapman was appointed as Shadow Minister for Prisons.
Chapman was one of the many Labour MPs to be defeated at the 2019 general election, losing her seat to Conservative Peter Gibson following 27 years of Labour holding the constituency.[15]
After losing her seat, she became chair of Keir Starmer's successful campaign in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election and later accepted the role of political secretary to Starmer in his role as Leader of the Labour Party.[16][17]
House of Lords
In August 2020,
Chapman was removed as Starmer's political director in June 2021, after what The Times referred to as "months of friction" with Labour MPs, and was re-appointed to the frontbench as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, shadowing Lord Frost at Task Force Europe and the Cabinet Office.[21][22][23]
In August 2023, Chapman was announced as the new Chancellor of Teesside University.[24]
Personal life
She married fellow Labour MP Nick Smith in July 2014.[25] She has two sons from a previous relationship.[3]
References
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- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ James, Erwin (25 February 2015). "The would-be minister with inside knowledge of the prisons beat". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ a b Pyrah, Lauren (20 November 2009). "Labour shortlist confirmed". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
- ^ "Darlington". BBC News. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
- ^ "Four contest Darlington Borough Council seat". The Northern Echo. 11 June 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
- ^ Cook, Paul (8 June 2010). "New MP calls for tighter controls on sex offenders". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ "Chair and Vice-chairs". Progress. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ "EU vote: Where the cabinet and other MPs stand". BBC News. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ^ a b Moss, Richard (10 October 2011). "North East MP Jenny Chapman handed shadow prison role". BBC News. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Darlington MP Jenny Chapman resigns from education team". Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith". LabourList. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ "Corbyn appoints 21 frontbenchers – LabourList". 9 October 2016. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- ^ "General election 2019: Tories take five Labour heartland seats". BBC News. 13 December 2019.
- ^ "Labour leadership frontrunner Starmer hires ex-Corbyn aide as key strategic advisor". ITV News. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Pogrund, Gabriel (19 July 2020). "Keir Starmer's team — haven't we seen something like this before?". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Hope, Christopher (15 August 2020). "Tom Watson in line to receive peerage after nomination by Sir Keir Starmer". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Political Peerages 2020". Gov.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ "Crown Office". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "Sir Keir Starmer's closest adviser Baroness Chapman moved to new position". BBC News. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ Maguire, Patrick; Zeffman, Henry (22 June 2021). "Keir Starmer forced to sideline top aide Baroness Chapman". The Times. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ Elgot, Jessica; Stewart, Heather (22 June 2021). "Labour leader Keir Starmer axes chief aide Jenny Chapman". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ "Ex-Darlington MP baroness Jenny Chapman made Teesside uni chancellor". BBC News. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ Jim Shannon (9 April 2014). "Chapman-Smith marriage". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. col. 308. Archived from the original on 14 September 2017.