Lisa Forbes | |
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| Member of Parliament forPeterborough | |
| In office 6 June 2019 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Fiona Onasanya |
| Succeeded by | Paul Bristow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lisa Jane Forbes (1969-07-28)28 July 1969 (age 56) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 4 |
Lisa Jane Forbes (born 28 July 1969) is a BritishLabour Party politician who served as theMember of Parliament forPeterborough from aJune 2019 by-election to thegeneral election in December that year.[1]
Forbes, who is a member ofGMB,[2] was an official inUnite the Union. She has worked forThomas Cook.[3]
Forbes was elected as a Labour councillor forOrton Longueville ward onPeterborough City Council in 2012, standing down in 2016 to focus on her parliamentary candidacy.[4][5]
She was the Labour candidate for Peterborough at the2015 General Election, reducing the Conservative majority by over half, but chose not to stand in the2017 election at whichFiona Onasanya won the seat for Labour.[6] After Onasanya'sremoval by means of a recall petition, Forbes was selected to contest the seat again in the ensuingby-election.[7]
Forbes was elected MP for Peterboroughat the by-election on 6 June 2019 with a majority of 683 over theBrexit Party candidateMike Greene, who had been expected to win.[8][9] She ran in the by-election on a platform of seeking to invest more into local schools,[10] revitalise the local police force and combatillegal dumping.[11] Jewish groups called on Labour to disown her[12] for having commented on aFacebook thread and also a video containing anti-Israel and allegedlyantisemitic remarks: Forbes said she had not noticed the phrases.[13][14] After she was elected,Jeremy Corbyn said she was "not a racist in any way",[15] while she arranged to meet Jewish groups.[16]
During her brief time in Parliament she unsuccessfully called for a government bailout forThomas Cook Group, which employed 1000 people at their head office in her constituency[17] and campaigned for there to be statutory guidance on school uniform costs.[18]
Forbes stood for re-election at the2019 general election but lost toConservative candidatePaul Bristow by a margin of 2,580 votes.
Forbes has lived in the constituency for 30 years. She has four children.[19]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forPeterborough June 2019–November 2019 | Succeeded by |
