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Colleen Fletcher
MP
Colleen Fletcher MP
	Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Lord Commissioner of HM Household
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 July 2017
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn; Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Position Established
Member of Parliament; for Coventry North East
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Bob Ainsworth
Majority	7,692 (17.3%)
Personal details
Born	Colleen Margaret Dalton; 23 November 1954 (age 69); Coventry, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ian Richard Fletcher (m. 1972)
Children	2

Colleen Margaret Fletcher (née Dalton; born 23 November 1954) is a British Labour Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East in the 2015 general election. Prior to her parliamentary career, she was a local councillor.

Early life edit

Colleen Margaret Dalton was born on 23 November 1954 in Coventry, England to William Charles and Dot Dalton.^[1] Her mother was a Labour councillor on Coventry City Council. She grew up in Coventry and attended Richard Lee Primary School, Lyng Hall School, and the further education college Henley College.^[2]

Political career edit

Fletcher represented Wyken ward on Coventry City Council from 1992 to 2000 and between 2002 and 2004.^[3] In 2011, Fletcher was elected as a Labour Party councillor for the Upper Stoke ward on the same council.^[4]

In December 2013, she was selected as the Labour candidate for Coventry North East. The seat had been represented by a Labour MP since its formation in 1974.^[5] Fletcher was elected as MP with a majority of 11,775 (29.1%). She was re-elected in the 2017 general election.^[6]

She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.^[7] Since October 2017, Fletcher has sat on the Administration Committee and is an opposition whip.^[8]

Fletcher supported the United Kingdom (UK) remaining within the European Union (EU) in the 2016 UK EU membership referendum. In the indicative votes on 27 March 2019, she voted for a referendum on a Brexit withdrawal agreement, for the Norway-plus model, and for a customs union with the EU.^[9]

On 5 September 2022, she announced she would be standing down at the next general election.^[10]

Personal life edit

She married Ian Richard Fletcher in 1972; the couple have two sons.^[11]

References edit

^ Fletcher, Colleen Margaret. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283917. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ Reid, Les (14 December 2013). "Colleen Fletcher selected as Labour candidate for Coventry North East". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
^ Reid, Les (18 November 2013). "Four make shortlist to fight Coventry North-East for Labour". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "Upper Stoke Ward - Labour hold". Coventry City Council. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "Coventry North East". UK Polling Report. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "Coventry North East". BBC News. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith". LabourList. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
^ "Colleen Fletcher MP". parliament.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
^ "How MPs voted on May's withdrawal deal defeat". Financial Times. 29 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019.
^ Brown, Ellie (5 September 2022). "Coventry MP to stand down at next general election". CoventryLive. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
^ Gilbert, Simon (3 June 2015). "Coventry's first female MP in 35 years speaks of juggling her new career with supporting her husband through his cancer battle". Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2019.