Cat Eccles | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forStourbridge | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Suzanne Webb |
| Majority | 3,073 (7.7%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Stourbridge, England |
| Political party | Labour |
Catherine Eccles[1] is a BritishLabour Party politician who has served as theMember of Parliament forStourbridge since2024,[2] and a councillor inDudley since 2022[3]
She has previously worked in hospital operating theatres as a senioroperating department practitioner (ODP). She had been a member of the Labour Party for more than seven years before she was elected.
Eccles has been a local councillor for the Wollaston and Stourbridge Town ward, onDudley Metropolitan Borough Council, since the2022 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council election.[3]
She is a member ofUnison,Unite the Union and theNational Trust, and is a trustee of Wollaston Village Hall.[4][5]
Eccles was selected as aprospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency ofStourbridge, a thensafe seat for theConservative Party, in December 2023.[6]
She is the chair of theAPPG on Visual Arts and Artists.[7]
In Parliament, Eccles made a number of interventions in support of theTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. In the second reading of the Bill, Eccles objected to the use of language describing assisted dying as assisted suicide, attempting unsuccessfully to raise a point of order in Parliament over Conservative MPDanny Kruger's use of this term, which she considered "offensive".[8]
Eccles attracted criticism for visiting Israel in June 2025, as part of a trip organised byLabour Friends of Israel.[9]
She has said that having autism inhibits her ability to understand what she has called "arcane" and "pretend rules" that operate in Parliament.[10]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forStourbridge 2024–present | Incumbent |
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