Cat Eccles | |
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Member of Parliament for Stourbridge | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Suzanne Webb |
Majority | 3,073 (7.7%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Stourbridge,England |
Political party | Labour Party UK |
Catherine Eccles [1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Stourbridge since 2024, [2] and a Councillor in Dudley since 2022 [3]
She has previously worked in hospital operating theatres as a Senior Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). She has been a member of the Labour Party for over 7 years.
Eccles has been a local councillor for the Wollaston and Stourbridge Town ward,on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council,since 2022 [3]
She is a member of Unison,Unite the Union,the National Trust,and is a Trustee of Wollaston Village Hall. [4] [5]
Eccles was selected as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Stourbridge,a then safe seat for the Conservative Party,in December 2023. [6]
She is the Chair of the APPG on Visual Arts and Artists. [7]
In Parliament,Eccles made a number of interventions in support of the Terminally 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 terminology she considered “offensive”. [8]
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