Stella Judith Creasy was born on 5 April 1977 and is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Walthamstow since 2010.
31 Facts About Stella Creasy
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Stella Creasy served in the frontbench teams of Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman from 2011 to 2015.
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Stella Creasy was a vocal critic of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace him in the 2016 leadership election.
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Stella Creasy was born on 5 April 1977 in Sutton Coldfield, and is the daughter of Corinna Frances Avril and Philip Charles Stella Creasy; her father is a trained opera singer and her mother a headteacher of a special needs school.
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Stella Creasy's mother described her own parents as "very aristocratic" and herself as "enormously privileged", which contributed to her decision to join the Labour Party.
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Stella Creasy attended Magdalene College, Cambridge where she read Social and Political Sciences before earning a PhD in at the London School of Economics with a thesis titled "Understanding the lifeworld of social exclusion".
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Stella Creasy was deputy director of the Involve think tank and worked as a researcher and speech writer for various Labour government ministers, including Douglas Alexander, Charles Clarke and Ross Cranston.
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Stella Creasy then became head of public affairs at the Scout Association.
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Stella Creasy received a Titmuss Prize in 2005 for her thesis.
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Stella Creasy supported David Miliband's bid for the Labour Party leadership in 2010.
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Stella Creasy joined Labour's frontbench team in October 2011 as Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention.
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Stella Creasy then served as Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills from October 2013 to September 2015.
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Stella Creasy supported the No More Page 3 campaign to stop The Sun newspaper from publishing pictures of topless glamour models.
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Stella Creasy did not back any of the final four leadership candidates.
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Stella Creasy later became a vocal critic of Corbyn and said the party under his leadership was "running on empty".
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Stella Creasy supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
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Stella Creasy supported Remain in the EU referendum in June 2016 and voted against the triggering of Article 50 in February 2017.
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Stella Creasy argued in September 2018 that misogyny should be made a hate crime.
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Stella Creasy campaigned successfully for more regulation of payday loans companies.
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Stella Creasy won The Spectator magazine's Campaigner of the Year prize in their Parliamentarian of the Year awards in 2011 for her work on the issue, and was acknowledged by the coalition government's Chancellor George Osborne for having contributed to the government's change of policy.
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Wonga made an "immediate and unreserved apology" following these malicious attacks, and Stella Creasy managed to get the firm to promote one of her constituency events in aid of struggling families.
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In 2017, a potential amendment to the Queen's Speech, organised by Stella Creasy, calling for the Government to allocate adequate funding for women who are forced to travel to England to have an abortion, gained cross-party support and was ultimately signed by 100 MPs, threatening a government defeat.
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Stella Creasy was reported to have received threats from some anti-abortion activists.
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In June 2022, after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, Creasy said that she would table an amendment to the Bill of Rights Bill which would make access to abortion a human right.
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On 2 September 2014 at the City of London Magistrates' Court, Peter Nunn was found guilty of sending menacing messages to Stella Creasy, and was jailed for eighteen weeks.
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Stella Creasy criticised him for a previous tweet about an MP's breasts.
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Stella Creasy allegedly received threats via social media following her vote for extending UK military action against ISIS to Syria after the parliamentary debate on 2 December 2015.
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Stella Creasy was undecided until the day of the vote, while staff in her Walthamstow constituency office had to deal with what they referred to as harassing telephone calls.
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In May 2021, Stella Creasy asked for maternity leave under the same conditions as Attorney General Suella Braverman, who was granted full maternity leave under the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021.
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Stella Creasy had been investigated by her local council after it had received a report from a man using the alias Lance Jones.
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Stella Creasy's partner is Dan Fox, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel.