Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley

Christine Mary Crawley, Baroness Crawley FRSA ( born January 9, 1950) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer.

Biography

Crawley went to the Notre Dame Roman Catholic Girls' School in Birmingham, and then studied at Digby Stuart College to become a teacher. After her graduation, she taught children aged 9 to 15 years and also supervised a youth theater. When she sought support for the theater project, they came into contact with local politicians; she began to get involved in politics, and was a member of the Labour Party. Shortly after her admission, she was chairman of the local branch and was responsible for the women's group of the local branch She was elected to the District Councillor in South Oxfordshire, at a time when the Labour Party was a minority party in the district.

In 1983 she ran for a seat in the House, but did not reach the majority. It was another year in local politics worked and then successfully ran for a seat in the European Parliament for the constituency of Birmingham East. She sat from 1984 to 1999 in the European Parliament. She was in the Committee on Women and Gender Equality rights. After their Palamentarierzeit in the European Parliament she was sitting in the regional parliament of the West Midlands Regional. In 1998, she was elevated to the Baroness Crawley. From 2002 to 2008 she was their party Whip in the House of Lords.