Lynda Ellen Waltho (born 22 May 1960) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge since 2005. She was elected after sitting Labour MP Debra Shipley had stepped down due to ill-health just days before the election was called.
Waltho was born in London and educated at Keele University. She is married with two children and her husband Steve is a Labour member of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. She worke...
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Lynda Ellen Waltho (born 22 May 1960) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge since 2005. She was elected after sitting Labour MP Debra Shipley had stepped down due to ill-health just days before the election was called.
Waltho was born in London and educated at Keele University. She is married with two children and her husband Steve is a Labour member of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. She worked as principal advisor to Neena Gill MEP. Her special interests include education, childcare and the economy.
Waltho won the seat with a slim majority of just 407 over Conservative candidate, Diana Coad, reduced from her predecessor's 3812 at the 2001 general election. In November 2005, she was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Hanson MP, Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office. Making her the first Labour member of the 2005 intake to hold any government role, albeit a junior one.
She was previously Parliamentary...
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