1. Victoria Jane Foxcroft was born on 9 March 1977 and is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Lewisham North, previously Lewisham Deptford, since 2015.
14 Facts About Vicky Foxcroft
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Vicky Foxcroft is a former trade union official and was a Member of Lewisham Council from 2010 to 2014.
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Victoria Vicky Foxcroft was born on 9 March 1977 in Chorley.
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Vicky Foxcroft studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and Business Studies at De Montfort University between 1996 and 2000.
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Vicky Foxcroft has been a Labour member since 1997, and has sat on the Party's National Policy Forum.
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In 2002, Vicky Foxcroft became an officer at the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, continuing through the merger of the AEEU into Amicus in 2001, and the merger of Amicus into Unite the Union in 2007.
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Vicky Foxcroft was a research officer from 2002 to 2005; a political officer from 2005 to 2009, and a finance sector officer from 2009 until 2015.
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Vicky Foxcroft made her maiden speech in a debate on the Scotland Bill on 8 June 2015, in which she quoted lyrics from The Red Flag.
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Vicky Foxcroft supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
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In 2016, Vicky Foxcroft established the cross-party Youth Violence Commission, which she continues to chair.
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In June 2019 Vicky Foxcroft was promoted to become Shadow Minister for Civil Society.
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Vicky Foxcroft endorsed Lisa Nandy in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.
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Vicky Foxcroft supports lowering the voting age to 16, co-chairing the APPG for Votes at 16.
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Vicky Foxcroft asked in April 2021 what is thought to be the first ever question at Prime Minister's Questions in British Sign Language, bringing attention to the absence of a sign language interpreter at Boris Johnson's press briefings.