1. Ruth Margaret Cadbury was born on 14 May 1959 and is a British politician and planner who has served as Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth since 2015.
18 Facts About Ruth Cadbury
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Ruth Margaret Cadbury was born on 14 May 1959 in Birmingham, England.
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Ruth Cadbury is the eldest child of Charles Cadbury and Jill Ransome.
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Ruth Cadbury is a member of the Cadbury family, a notable Quaker family which includes the Cadbury chocolate company founders.
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Ruth Cadbury graduated from the University of Salford in 1981, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Sciences.
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From 1983 to 1989, Ruth Cadbury worked for the Covent Garden Community Association.
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Ruth Cadbury was then a Planning Advisor at Planning Aid for London for the next seven years, before beginning work as a Policy Planner at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for five years.
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Ruth Cadbury was a freelance planning consultant from 2006 to 2014.
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Ruth Cadbury was first elected as a Labour councillor for the Gunnersbury ward of Hounslow London Borough Council in 1986, before being elected for the Brentford Clifden ward in 1998 and the Brentford ward in 2002.
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Ruth Cadbury was Deputy Leader of the council from 2010 to 2012, and stood down as a councillor in May 2015.
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Ruth Cadbury supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
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Ruth Cadbury was dismissed 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.
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Ruth Cadbury voted in the unsuccessful no lobby in a key House of Commons division of 25 June 2018 for the National Policy Statement on Airports, which laid out government support for a third runway, and she was among 28 of the 46 London Labour MPs opposing the runway.
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Ruth Cadbury re-joined the Labour front bench in the May 2021 as the Shadow Minister for Planning, receiving half of Mike Amesbury's former brief as the Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning.
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In Keir Starmer's front bench reshuffle of November 2021, Ruth Cadbury was appointed Shadow Trade Minister.
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Ruth Cadbury is a co-sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults Bill on assisted suicide.
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Ruth Cadbury is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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Ruth Cadbury is married to Nick Gash, a non-executive director of the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and former chair of West Middlesex Hospital.