Ruth Cadbury | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Chair of theTransport Committee | |
| Assumed office 11 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Iain Stewart |
| Member of Parliament forBrentford and Isleworth | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Mary Macleod |
| Majority | 9,824 (21.7%) |
| Member ofHounslow Council | |
| In office 8 May 1986 – 29 May 2015 | |
| Succeeded by | Guy Lambert |
| Constituency | Gunnersbury (1986–1998) Brentford Clifden (1998–2002) Brentford (2002–2015) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ruth Margaret Cadbury (1959-05-14)14 May 1959 (age 66) Birmingham, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Relations | Cadbury family |
| Alma mater | University of Salford (BSc) |
| Occupation |
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| Website | Official website |
Ruth Margaret Cadbury (born 14 May 1959) is a British politician and planner who has served asMember of Parliament (MP) forBrentford and Isleworth since 2015. A member of theLabour Party, she was a Member ofHounslow Council from 1986 to 2015 and Deputy Leader of the Council from 2010 to 2012.
Ruth Margaret Cadbury was born on 14 May 1959 inBirmingham, England.[1] She is the eldest child of Charles Cadbury and Jill Ransome.[2] She is a member of theCadbury family, a notableQuaker family which includes theCadbury chocolate company founders.[3]
Cadbury was educated atThe Mount School, a private Quaker boarding school, and laterBournville College in Birmingham. She graduated from theUniversity of Salford in 1981, with aBachelor of Science degree in Social Sciences.[2]
From 1983 to 1989, Cadbury worked for the Covent Garden Community Association. She was then a Planning Advisor at Planning Aid for London for the next seven years, before beginning work as a Policy Planner at theLondon Borough of Richmond upon Thames for five years. She was a freelance planning consultant from 2006 to 2014.[2][4]
Cadbury was first elected as a Labour councillor for theGunnersbury ward ofHounslow London Borough Council in 1986, before being elected for the Brentford Clifden ward in 1998 and the Brentford ward in 2002. She was Deputy Leader of the council from 2010 to 2012, and stood down as a councillor in May 2015.[5][6]
At the2015 general election, Cadbury was elected to Parliament as MP forBrentford and Isleworth with 43.8% of the vote and a majority of 465.[7][8][9] In hermaiden speech to theHouse of Commons on 2 June 2015, she referenced her Quaker background and its relevance to social justice.[3]
In December 2015, she voted against military intervention in Syria.[10]
In October 2016, she was appointed byLabour Party leaderJeremy Corbyn as a Shadow Housing Minister.[11] She supportedOwen Smith in the failed attempt to replaceJeremy Corbyn in the2016 Labour Party leadership election.[12]
At the snap2017 general election, Cadbury was re-elected as MP for Brentford and Isleworth with an increased vote share of 57.4% and an increased majority of 12,182.[13][14]
Cadbury was dismissed as Shadow Housing Minister on 29 June 2017 for contravening awhipped vote on an amendment to theQueen's speech calling for the UK to remain in theEuropean Single Market; whilst the Labour position was to abstain, she voted to support the motion.[15][16]
She voted in the unsuccessful no ('Noes') lobby in a key House of Commons division of 25 June 2018 for the National Policy Statement on Airports, which laid out government support for a third runway, and she was among 28 of the 46 London Labour MPs opposing the runway.[17]
At the2019 general election, Cadbury was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 50.2% and a decreased majority of 10,514.[18][19]
Cadbury re-joined the Labour front bench in the May 2021 as the Shadow Minister for Planning, receiving half ofMike Amesbury's former brief as the Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning.[20] In Keir Starmer's front bench reshuffle of November 2021, Cadbury was appointed Shadow Trade Minister. In his reshuffle inSeptember 2023, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation.[21]
At the2024 general election, Cadbury was again re-elected with a decreased vote share of 44.2% and a decreased majority of 9,824.[22]
Cadbury is a co-sponsor ofKim Leadbeater'sTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill onassisted suicide.[23]
Cadbury is aNontheist Quaker[24] andhumanist.[25] In 2022, she became a Vice Chair of theAll-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, which meets to discuss issues of relevance to humanists.[26] She is an honorary associate of theNational Secular Society.[27]
Cadbury is married to Nick Gash, a non-executive director of the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust[28] and former chair of West Middlesex Hospital (Cadbury's constituency local hospital).[29]
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