"Keir Starmer's team - haven't we seen something like this before?".
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In August 2020, The Telegraph reported that Chapman was "likely" to be nominated for a peerage by Starmer and it was announced in December 2020 that she would join the House of Lords as part of the 2020 Political Honours. After losing her seat, she became chair of Keir Starmer's successful campaign in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election and later accepted the role of political secretary to Starmer in his role as Leader of the Labour Party. Ĭhapman was one of the many Labour MPs to be defeated at the 2019 general election, losing her seat to Conservative Peter Gibson following 27 years of Labour holding the constituency. She later rejoined the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Exiting the European Union.
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She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the subsequent leadership election. She became Shadow Minister for Childcare and Early Years in January 2016, but resigned in June of the same year among dozens of Labour frontbench colleagues. She had previously written policy recommendations on the subject of incarceration, including a recommendation that prison officers should receive training to help them rehabilitate inmates.
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In 2011, Chapman was appointed as Shadow Minister for Prisons. During her time as an MP, she served as a vice-chair of Progress and campaigned to remain in the European Union in the 2016 EU membership referendum. She also backed the Building Schools for the Future programme. Ĭhapman made her maiden speech in Parliament on 7 June 2010, during which she asked for social network services to be regulated to stop paedophiles.
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As a result of her election victory, she decided to stand down as a councillor. Chapman said: "This shows that the people of Darlington want to choose a Darlington person who will put the town first." She was elected Darlington MP in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,388. She was selected to stand for parliament by the local constituency party the following month. In November 2009, Chapman was shortlisted as one of four candidates to succeed Milburn as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Darlington on an open shortlist, i.e. After a career break to have children, she returned to politics at Darlington Borough Council when she was elected as borough councillor for the Cockerton West ward in 2007. Ĭhapman worked as constituency office manager for Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn. She had work placements attached to prison psychology departments whilst studying for her undergraduate degree. before completing a BSc in psychology at Brunel University in 1996, and later took an MA in archaeology at Durham University in 2004. Chapman was born in September 1973 in Surrey but moved to Darlington at a young age, where she attended Hummersknott School and Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College.