Paula Michelle Sherriff (born 16 April 1975) is a British Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury from 2015 to 2019.
Prior to her election to Parliament,Sherriff worked in the police force,providing victim support,and in community care on the NHS frontline.[1] Her sister Lee Sherriff is a member of Carlisle City Council,and unsuccessfully contested the Carlisle constituency at the 2015 general election.[2][3]
In November 2013,Sherriff was selected from an all-women shortlist by the Dewsbury Constituency Labour Party (CLP) as their prospective parliamentary candidate.[6] She was elected to Parliament at the 2015 general election,gaining Dewsbury from incumbent Conservative Simon Reevell.
In September 2015,she secured an agreement from WHSmith to reduce the price of their goods in hospitals,against whom had she had launched a campaign for exploiting vulnerable patients and their families. Subsequently,the company agreed to match their high street prices in hospital stores.[9]
In 2015,Sherriff was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Jon Trickett,then Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary. On 11 January 2016,Sherriff resigned from this role to campaign against "Tory cuts" and to focus on her work on the health select committee.[10]
Sherriff became the first backbench MP in Parliamentary history to have an amendment to a government Budget resolution successfully adopted when her motion to abolish the "Tampon Tax" was passed. On 21 March 2016,the government acknowledged that the tax would be abolished. Both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Labour Party commended her work on the issue.[11]
Sherriff secured a U-turn on planned reduction in bed numbers at Dewsbury hospital and has campaigned against the hospital being downgraded.[12] Sherriff also campaigned against proposed downgrades to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.[13][non-primary source needed]
Sherriff was Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Hate Crime and Women's Health.[citation needed]
She was appointed Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care in January 2018 and has led on the Labour Party's efforts to secure additional funding for mental health services and provide early intervention with effective child and adolescent mental health services.[15]
In 2018,Labour MP Barry Sheerman accused then Labour MP Chris Williamson of campaigning for the deselection of moderate incumbents including Sherriff.[20] Nevertheless,she was unanimously re-selected the following year.[21]
In 2020,Sherriff announced her candidacy to contend the Labour nomination for the new office of Mayor of West Yorkshire,however,she withdrew due to her breast cancer treatment.[26][27]LabourList listed her as a potential Labour candidate for the 2021 by-election in the neighbouring constituency of Batley and Spen,but she did not run.[28]
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References
↑ "About". Paula Sherriff. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
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