1. Mary Honeyball was a Member of the European Parliament for London from 2000 to 2019.
12 Facts About Mary Honeyball
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Mary Honeyball did not stand for re-election in 2019, and resigned from the Labour Party shortly after voting closed in the UK.
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Mary Honeyball was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families.
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Mary Honeyball was a councillor in the London Borough of Barnet from 1978 to 1986.
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Mary Honeyball unsuccessfully contested Enfield Southgate in 1983 and Norwich North for Labour in 1987.
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Mary Honeyball was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women's Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of Emily's List, an organisation that helps pro-choice Labour women campaign for seats in Parliament.
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Mary Honeyball was the UK Labour representative in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament and served as Vice-Chair of the Committee from 2014 to 2019.
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Mary Honeyball was a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics, and is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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When commenting on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in May 2008, Mary Honeyball asked whether ministers should be allowed to remain on the front bench of government if they decide to oppose abortion legislation.
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On 20 June 2018, Mary Honeyball voted in favour of controversial mechanisms contained in the European Copyright Directive that would require internet companies to make 'best efforts' to prevent people uploading copyrighted materials, including those contained in internet memes.
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Mary Honeyball did not stand in the Labour list for the 2019 European Parliament election, and announced, shortly after voting closed, that she had left the Labour Party, citing the party's "disastrous stance on Brexit" and the party's failure to act on anti-Semitism within the party.
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Mary Honeyball has described herself as "a humanist", and has been a regular blogger on women's rights, religion, and politics.