Christine Linda Shawcroft was born on April 1955 and is a British Labour Party activist and former politician.
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Christine Linda Shawcroft was born on April 1955 and is a British Labour Party activist and former politician.
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Christine Shawcroft later resigned her position on Labour's National Executive Committee.
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Christine Shawcroft was elected as a Labour Party member of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council in a 1985 by-election, representing Blackwall, and served for two years as leader of the Labour group on the council, while it was in opposition.
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Christine Shawcroft served on the executive of the London Labour Party.
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Christine Shawcroft was rejected as a potential candidate for the London Assembly.
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In 1998, Christine Shawcroft stood for the party's National Executive Committee as part of the Grassroots Alliance slate.
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Christine Shawcroft was a leading member of the Labour Representation Committee, a left-wing group within the Labour Party, but resigned in 2012 in protest of it taking control of the Labour Briefing journal.
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In 2015, Christine Shawcroft was briefly suspended from the Labour Party after she gave support to Lutfur Rahman, the former Mayor of Tower Hamlets.
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Christine Shawcroft said she was not fully aware of the facts at the time of sending the email and, if she had been, would have reacted differently.
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On 31 March 2018, Christine Shawcroft issued a further statement in which she indicated that, while "it has been a privilege to serve on the Labour party National Executive Committee for the last 19 years", she was resigning from the body "with immediate effect".
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