Melanie Onn

Melanie Onn
MP
Member of Parliament
for Great Grimsby
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded by Austin Mitchell
Majority 4,540 (13.5%)
Personal details
Born (1979-06-19) 19 June 1979
Grimsby, England
Political party Labour
Children 1
Alma mater Middlesex University
Website melanieonn.co.uk

Melanie Onn (born 19 June 1979) is a British Labour Party politician who has been MP for Great Grimsby since May 2015[1] and Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons since September 2015.

Education and early life

Born in Grimsby, Onn was educated at Franklin College, Grimsby, and studied Politics, Philosophy and International Studies at the University of Middlesex.[2][3]

Early political career

Onn worked for 10 years at the Labour Party's head office, becoming the head of the party's Compliance Unit.[4] In 2009, she stood in the European Parliament elections for the Yorkshire and Humber region, placed fifth on Labour's regional list.[5] From 2010, she was a regional organiser for the public sector trade union UNISON.[6]

Member of Parliament

Onn was selected as the Labour candidate for Great Grimsby from an all-women shortlist in July 2014, following the announcement that the sitting MP, Austin Mitchell, would retire at the next election.[7] In the 2015 general election, she retained the seat for her party with a majority of 4,540, up from 714 in the previous election.[8]

She described the shadow cabinet secretary positions in health, business, international development, education and defence - among others - as "tea-making jobs" when they were given to women following newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's September 2015 reorganisation of the party's front bench.[9]

In September 2015, Onn was appointed Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, working alongside Shadow Leader Chris Bryant.[10]

Following the European Union referendum 'leave' result on 24 June 2016, she resigned her position of Shadow Deputy Leader of the Commons in Jeremy Corbyn's front-bench team three days later. In her letter of resignation, she told Corbyn that the party would remain divided as long as he stayed in post.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "2015 General Election - Great Grimsby Result". BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Melanie Onn chosen as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Great Grimsby". Grimsby Telegraph. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Melanie Onn selected as Great Grimsby Labour candidate". BBC News. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  4. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-onn-52bb8422
  5. ↑ "European elections 2009: Yorkshire & the Humber region - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "PPC selected in key marginal seat Great Grimsby | LabourList". labourlist.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "Melanie Onn selected as Great Grimsby Labour candidate". BBC News. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Great Grimsby: Parliamentary Constituency". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  9. ↑ BBC Radio Humberside. 14 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Chakelian, Anoosh (18 September 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet: the full list of ministers". New Statesman. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Grimsby MP Melanie Onn resigns from Shadow Cabinet post and urges Jeremy Corbyn to step down - Grimsby Telegraph. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2016.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Austin Mitchell		 Member of Parliament
for Great Grimsby
2015–present 		Incumbent
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