![]() ![]() If a landlord failed to let and maintain a property that was fit for human habitation, the Bill would give tenants the right to take action in the courts. In December 2018, Buck's Private Member's Bill received Royal Assent as the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act, coming into force on 20 March 2019. At the 2017 general election, Buck increased her majority by 14.7%, from 1,977 (5.0%) to 11,512 (26.6%), representing a 10.8% swing to Labour in the constituency. In the 2016 Labour leadership election, when Corbyn was challenged by Owen Smith, Buck nominated Smith. Cooper came third, with Jeremy Corbyn becoming party leader Buck did not serve in any posts during his leadership. Buck nominated Yvette Cooper in the resulting leadership election. įollowing Labour's defeat at the 2015 election, which saw Buck re-elected with a slightly decreased majority, Miliband resigned as leader. In July 2015, she was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. Following Miliband's election as Leader of the Labour Party, Buck was made Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, and then Shadow Minister for Education, before becoming his Parliamentary Private Secretary. In the Labour leadership contest which resulted from Gordon Brown's resignation as party leader, and Labour going into opposition, Buck nominated Ed Miliband to replace him. Īt the 2010 general election she was elected MP for the newly recreated marginal seat of Westminster North, with a majority of 2,126 over Joanne Cash, the Conservative candidate, in a high-profile race. ![]() However, she did become a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government in the wake of the 2005 general election, as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport. In 2001, her appointment as an Assistant Government Whip was announced without her knowledge and consent. In a 2005 profile, she was described as "A bright and humorous centre-left feminist" who "has the perfect New Labour pedigree." įollowing her election to Parliament, Buck joined the Social Security Select committee, and after the 2001 general election she joined the Work and Pensions Select Committee. She made her maiden speech on 17 June 1997, and has remained an MP since this time. Wheeler retired, and Buck was elected at the 1997 general election as the Labour MP for Regent's Park and Kensington North as part of the Labour landslide, with a majority of 14,657. The seat was based largely on the former Westminster North constituency, which was held narrowly by the former Conservative minister John Wheeler. Parliamentary career īuck was selected to stand for election for Labour through an all-women shortlist. Whilst a councillor, she was involved in exposing the fraudulent behaviour of council leader Shirley Porter and the homes for votes scandal. Buck remained on the council until shortly after her election to parliament in 1997, when she stood down. She was elected to Westminster City Council in 1990, representing Queen's Park ward (situated around the area of that name) in a safe seat for her party. She began working for the Labour Party in 1987 as a health directorate researcher, becoming a campaign strategy coordinator in 1992. Despite the large increase in the Labour vote, all three seats were narrowly retained by the Conservatives, in a tightly contested election which saw Labour come close to winning the council. In 1986 she stood in Westminster City Council's Cavendish ward, an area straddling Marylebone and the West End of London. īuck first ran for election in 1982, aged 23, as one of the three unsuccessful Labour candidates in Barnet's Mill Hill ward. The following year, she became a research and development worker with Outset, a charity working with disabled people, before joining Hackney London Borough Council in 1983, initially working for them as a senior disability officer, and from 1986 as a public health officer. Born in Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Buck was educated at the Chelmsford County High School for Girls and the London School of Economics, from where she was awarded a BSc and an MSc in Economics, and an MA in Social Policy and Administration. ![]()
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