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Emma Reynolds

Emma Reynolds
MP
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Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office
11 May 2015 – 12 September 2015
Leader Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by Hilary Benn
Succeeded by Jon Trickett
Shadow Minister for Housing
In office
7 October 2013 – 11 May 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Jack Dromey
Succeeded by Roberta Blackman-Woods
Shadow Minister for Europe
In office
7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Wayne David
Succeeded by Gareth Thomas
Member of Parliament
for Wolverhampton North East
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Ken Purchase
Majority 5,495 (16.2%)
Personal details
Born (1977-11-02) 2 November 1977 (age 39)
Wolverhampton, England
Political party Labour
Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford
Website Official website

Emma Elizabeth Reynolds (born 2 November 1977) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton North East since 2010 general election.

Reynolds was the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from May to September 2015.

Reynolds was educated at Codsall High School, near Wolverhampton, followed by Wulfrun Further Education College. She studied at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, where she read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Her father Kevin is a teacher at Concord College, a boarding independent school set in the grounds of Acton Burnell Castle, near Shrewsbury.

Reynolds set up a lobbying business in Brussels to help British companies that wished to influence EU laws.

From 2001 to 2004, Reynolds worked in Brussels as a political adviser to Robin Cook then President of the Party of European Socialists. She later worked in Downing Street and the House of Commons as a special advisor to then Minister for Europe and Labour Chief Whip Geoff Hoon.


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