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Alumna appointed Shadow Education Secretary

30 November 2021

Bridget Phillipson MP has been promoted to Shadow Secretary of State for Education in Labour’s shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Bridget studied History and French at Hertford, matriculating in 2002. First elected in 2010, she is the Labour MP for Houghton & Sunderland South in her native Tyne & Wear and has previously shadowed the role of Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Tweeting about her new role, Bridget paid tribute to her predecessor, Kate Green MP, and said “I had a wonderful education at my local state schools — and every child deserves that. The last Labour Government transformed the lives of a generation. I’ll work every day to see that change again.”