Ellie Reeves

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John Cryer
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(m. 2012)​
Ellie Reeves
MP
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Official portrait, 2017
Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator
Assumed office
4 September 2023
Children2
Relatives Rachel Reeves (sister)
Alma mater St Catherine's College, Oxford
ProfessionBarrister
Website Official website

Eleanor Claire Reeves [2] (born 11 December 1980) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West and Penge since 2017. [3] A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator since 2023. [4] She previously served as Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales from April 2020 to December 2021 and Shadow Minister for Prisons and Probation from 2021 to 2023.

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Early life and career

Eleanor Reeves was born in Lewisham, the daughter of teachers [5] Graham and Sally Reeves. [6] [7] Her older sister, Rachel, is the Labour MP for Leeds West [8] and the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer under party leader Keir Starmer.

Reeves grew up in Sydenham and was educated at Adamsrill Primary School and Cator Park Secondary School. [9] She then studied law at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating with a bachelor's degree. [10]

Political career

Reeves joined the Labour Party at 15, [5] chaired the Oxford University Labour Club in 2001 and was National Chair of Labour Students from 2002 to 2003.

In 2006, she was first elected as a constituency party representative on Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC), supported by Progress and Labour First. [3] Reeves was returned to the governing body in subsequent elections, and served as Vice-Chair from 2015 to 2016, [11] until she was defeated by Momentum in 2016. [12] She later served as vice-chair of the London Labour Party. [13] [14]

Reeves was selected as the Labour candidate for Lewisham West and Penge in April 2017, chosen over a left-wing Momentum activist. [15] [3]

Parliamentary career

At the snap 2017 general election, Reeves was elected to Parliament as MP for Lewisham West and Penge, winning with 66.6% of the vote and a majority of 23,162. [16] [17]

Reeves was appointed to the opposition front bench as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Kate Osamor, Shadow International Development Secretary, in March 2018. [18] On 13 June 2018, Reeves and five other MPs resigned as frontbenchers to vote in favour of remaining in the single market, defying the party whip. [19] [20]

After signing a letter criticising the decision to re-admit Chris Williamson into Labour, Reeves was threatened with deselection by a party member in July 2019. [21] Following backlash, Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote that pregnant MPs would not face deselection and the member withdrew their plans to challenge her. [22]

At the 2019 general election, Reeves was re-elected as MP for Lewisham West and Penge with a decreased vote share of 61.2% and a decreased majority of 21,543. [23] [24]

On 9 April 2020, Reeves was re-appointed to the opposition front bench as Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales. [25]

She served as Labour's political lead for the 2021 Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election, [26] in which there was a 7.4% increase in the party's vote share and 10.2% swing from the Conservatives to Labour, however the Conservatives held the seat with a 20.6% majority. [27]

In the 2023 British shadow cabinet reshuffle she joined the Shadow Cabinet as Labour Party Deputy National Campaign Coordinator. [28]

Reeves is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. [29]

Personal life

She is married to John Cryer MP, Parliamentary Labour Party Chair. [3] She had a son with him in 2015, and another in late 2019. [5]

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