Christine McCafferty is a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Calder Valley from 1997 to 2010 when she retired.
10 Facts About Christine McCafferty
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Christine McCafferty worked as welfare worker for disabled people for the Manchester Community Health Service from 1963 to 1970.
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Christine McCafferty was selected as a New Labour candidate through an all-women shortlist.
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Christine McCafferty was elected in the 1997 Labour landslide, replacing the Conservative Sir Donald Thompson who had held the seat since 1979.
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Christine McCafferty's election was subject of the book This England by Pete Davies.
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Christine McCafferty held the seat in the 2001 and 2005 general elections despite Tory resurgence.
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Christine McCafferty was the author of the McCafferty Report, which proposed to limit the freedom of medical professionals to decline to perform controversial medical practices, such as abortion, in order to insure access to medical treatment.
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Christine McCafferty was one of the Labour rebel MPs that voted against British involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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In 2007, Christine McCafferty announced that she would retire at the next general election.
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Christine McCafferty married Michael Christine McCafferty, with whom she had one son.