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Anna Turley was born on 9 October, 1978 in Dartford, England, is a British Labour Co-op politician, Former Chair of the Co-operative Party. Discover Anna Turley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?
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Anna Turley Net Worth
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Timeline
Anna Catherine Turley (born 9 October 1978) is a British former politician.
From 2001 to 2005, Turley was a fast-stream civil servant at the Home Office, initially working on youth crime issues, and later moved to the Department for Work and Pensions, specialising in child poverty issues.
In 2005, Turley became a special adviser in the Department for Work and Pensions under David Blunkett, then in 2006 for the Cabinet Office under Hilary Armstrong.
In the 2006 Wandsworth London Borough Council election, Turley stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate for Wandsworth Common ward.
In 2007, Turley worked for public relations agency The Ledbury Group.
In April 2008, she became deputy director of the local government research organisation the New Local Government Network, and in 2010 co-founded the Co-operative Councils Innovation Network designed to enable local authorities to work in partnership with local communities.
Turley was shortlisted for the North West Durham seat for the 2010 general election but lost out to Pat Glass.
In 2011, Turley founded a consultancy and online forum ProgLoc (Progressive Localism) for progressive debate of key issues affecting local government, and became an associate researcher for the NGO Future of London.
In 2012 Turley was listed as a speaker for the New Labour pressure group Progress.
In 2013, Turley became a senior research fellow at IPPR North.
In 2013, Turley was selected to stand in the Redcar constituency from an all-women shortlist, in a contentious selection process that was ultimately associated with the resignation of ten Labour councillors.
She was the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 2015 until 2019.
Turley became the member of parliament for Redcar at the May 2015 general election, winning the seat from the Liberal Democrats.
She was appointed as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee in July 2015, and later the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.
Soon after becoming an MP, Turley had to respond to major local employer SSI UK, which operated Teesside Steelworks, going into liquidation, leading to about 3,000 local job losses.
The steelworks had once employed about 40,000.
Turley set up a local SSI Taskforce, and secured £50 million from the government to help support retraining and new jobs.
In September 2015, the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appointed Turley as shadow civil society minister in his first shadow cabinet.
Turley was a critic of Corbyn, and resigned as a Shadow Minister in June 2016.
In the 2016 leadership election campaign soon afterwards, Turley stated that Corbyn was "completely out of touch with reality", and supported Owen Smith for leader.
She would later argue that Labour had "moved too far to the left" and had "issues around national security as well as with antisemitism".
In 2016, Turley introduced a private member's bill to increase the maximum sentences available to the courts for specified offences related to animal cruelty to five years.
She queued from 2am until 10am to table the bill.
The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Act was passed in April 2021, and came into force on 29 June 2021.
In the 2017 general election, Turley was re-elected with 23,623 votes, a share of 55.5%.
She became chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups ("APPGs") on Hydrogen and Bingo, Secretary of the APPG on Steel and Metal Related Industry and a member of the APPGs on Endometriosis, Speedway, Loan Charge, Carbon Capture and Storage, Performers Alliance, Music, Equitable Life, Fair Business Banking and the All-Party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group.
She is also a member of various Labour Party groups, including the Labour Movement for Europe, LGBT Labour, Jewish Labour Movement, Labour Campaign for International Development, Labour Friends of Israel, Labour Friends of Palestine & the Middle East and Labour Party Irish Society.
Turley was re-elected at the 2017 general election under Jeremy Corbyn.
In 2018, Turley worked with the charity, Family Rights Group, to establish the cross party Parliamentary Taskforce on Kinship Care, to campaign for improvements to support for children raised by relatives and friends when they cannot remain with their parents.
Turley later completed the 2023 Great North Run for Family Rights Group.
Turley was chair of the Co-operative Party from 8 June 2019 until December 2019.
She served as chair of the North East Child Poverty Commission (NECPC) from May 2022 to July 2023.
She was selected in 2023 to contest the Redcar constituency for Labour.
Turley was born in Dartford, and received an academic scholarship to attend the independent Ashford School.
She went on to read History at Greyfriars, Oxford.
In the 2019 general election, Turley lost her seat to the Conservative candidate.
She blamed party leader Jeremy Corbyn for the loss.
In December 2019, the Conservative party defeated Turley's 9,485 majority, taking the seat for the first time.
On 19 December 2019, following a six-day trial at the Royal Courts of Justice, Turley won a libel claim against Unite the Union and Stephen Walker (editor of The Skwawkbox); the court upheld that her reputation had been damaged by Walker and Unite during the election.