Ruth Cadbury

Ruth Margaret Cadbury (born 14 May 1959) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Brentford and Isleworth since gaining the seat from the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election. Cadbury has been a Brentford councillor for 25 years, and was deputy leader of the Hounslow London Borough Council from 2010–2012 where she was known for her work on a Living Wage for its staff as well as her opposition to any expansion to the nearby London Heathrow Airport.

Ruth Cadbury

MP
Cadbury in 2017
Shadow Minister for Housing
In office
11 October 2016 – 29 June 2017
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMelanie Onn
Member of Parliament
for Brentford and Isleworth
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byMary Macleod
Majority10,514 (18.0%)
Personal details
Born
Ruth Margaret Cadbury

(1959-05-14) 14 May 1959
Birmingham, England[1]
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Salford
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and career

Cadbury, the eldest child of Charles Lloyd Cadbury and Jillian Stafford Ransome, is one of three Quakers elected at the 2015 general election, the others being Labour's Catherine West and the Conservatives' Tania Mathias.[2] She was educated at The Mount School, York, Bournville College, and graduated from the University of Salford, BSc in 1981.[3] Having worked from 1983–1989 for Covent Garden Community Association she was a Planning Advisor at Planning Aid for London for the next seven years, then had the same title but in directly applicable policy at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for five years, progressing to a freelance consultant 2006–2014.[3]

Career

At the 2015 general election, she defeated the sitting Conservative MP Mary Macleod. In her maiden speech to the House of Commons on 2 June 2015, she made much of her Quaker background and its relevance to social justice. Her speech also referenced her distant ancestor, the chocolate producer and Quaker George Cadbury.[4] She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society,[5]

In October 2016, she was appointed by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Shadow Housing Minister. Commenting on the appointment she said "As a result of this Government's policies, owning a home is an unattainable dream for so many youngsters, and for countless people even having somewhere stable and affordable to call home is impossible".[6] She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.[7]

Cadbury was ousted as Shadow Housing Minister on 29 June 2017 for contravening a whipped vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech calling for the UK to remain in the European Single Market: whilst the Labour position was to abstain, she voted to support the motion.[8][9]

Cadbury voted in the unsuccessful no ('Noes') lobby in a key House of Commons division of 25 June 2018 as to the National Policy Statement: Airports which laid out government support for a third runway, and was among 28 of the 46 London Labour MPs opposing the runway.[10]

References
  1. "Ruth Cadbury MP". parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017.
  2. "First Quaker MPs elected in a decade". Quakers in Britain. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "Cadbury, Ruth, MP (Lab) Brentford and Isleworth, since 2015". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  4. "Health and Social Care". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 596. United Kingdom: House of Commons. 2 June 2015. col. 529–532. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. "National Secular Society Honorary Associates". National Secular Society. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  6. "Ruth Cadbury MP". ruthcadburymp.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  7. "Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith". LabourList. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  8. "Three sacked from Labour's frontbench over single market amendment". labourlist.org. LabourList. 29 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017.
  9. Asthana, Anushka (29 June 2017). "Jeremy Corbyn sacks three frontbenchers after single market vote". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  10. Hansard 25 June 2018 Division 192: National Policy Statement: Airports
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Mary Macleod		 Member of Parliament
for Brentford and Isleworth
2015–present		 Incumbent
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