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词条 Debbie Abrahams
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  1. Early and professional life

  2. Early political career

  3. Parliamentary career

     2018 bullying claims  

  4. Awards

  5. Personal life

  6. References

  7. External links

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|image = Debbie Abrahams MP.jpg
|caption = Abrahams in July 2014
|office = Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
|leader = Jeremy Corbyn
|term_start = 27 June 2016
|term_end = 8 May 2018
{{small|Suspended: 12 March 2018 - 8 May 2018}}
|predecessor = Owen Smith
|successor = Margaret Greenwood
|office1 = Shadow Minister for Disabled People
|term_start1 = 18 September 2015
|term_end1 = 27 June 2016
|predecessor1 = Kate Green
|successor1 = Marie Rimmer
|office2 = Member of Parliament
for Oldham East and Saddleworth
|term_start2 = 13 January 2011
|term_end2 =
|predecessor2 = Phil Woolas
|successor2 =
|majority2 = 8,182 (17.4%)
|birth_name = Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Morgan
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|9|15|df=y}}
|birth_place = Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Labour
|spouse = {{marriage|John Abrahams|1986}}
|children = 2
|alma_mater = University of Salford
University of Liverpool
|website = {{url|debbieabrahams.org.uk|Official website}}
{{url|parliament.uk/biographies/commons/debbie-abrahams/4212|Commons website}}
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Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams ({{nee}} Morgan; born 15 September 1960)[1][2] is a British Labour Party politician,[3] who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency since a by-election in January 2011. Her previous career was as a public health consultant.

Early and professional life

Abrahams was born in Sheffield; her father was a dentist. She was privately educated, going on to study biochemistry and physiology at the University of Salford; her early employment was as a community worker for a charity in Wythenshawe in south Manchester, where she set up job training programmes for teenagers.[4] She later studied for a master's degree at the University of Liverpool. Abrahams was head of healthy cities for Knowsley and served on the board of Bury and Rochdale Health Authority.[4]

In 2002, Abrahams was appointed chair of Rochdale Primary Care Trust.[5] She was Director of the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium at the University of Liverpool between 2006 and 2010.[6]

Early political career

She resigned from the Chair of Rochdale Primary Care Trust in 2007, over the use of private health companies in the National Health Service, which she said was "destroying the NHS".[7] She then joined the Labour Party, declaring that she wanted "to challenge health policy at a local and national level to ensure that it reflects [the] core values" of the NHS. She was appointed by Simon Danczuk, then Labour candidate for Rochdale, as his advisor on health,[5] and she stood for Rochdale Borough Council in Milnrow and Newhey ward in the 2008 local elections.[8] She criticised the local council in Rochdale for failing to address health inequalities in the town.[9]

At the 2010 general election, Abrahams was the Labour Party candidate for Colne Valley; she made a plea to Liberal Democrat voters to back her in order to stop the Conservatives winning power.[10] She was unsuccessful in her attempt to retain the seat, which had previously been held by Labour, and ended up in third place.[13]

The winning candidate, Conservative MP Jason McCartney, said after the election that Abrahams had run "a good, positive campaign" and that in the light of bad-tempered exchanges between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, he was not surprised that she was close to coming second.[11] Shortly after the general election, Abrahams was selected as the Labour candidate for the Liberal Democrat-held Golcar ward of Kirklees Council at the 2011 local elections. However, she stood down from the candidature when selected for the forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.

Parliamentary career

In December 2010, Abrahams was placed on a shortlist of three to be the Labour Party candidate for the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.[12] She was selected as Labour's candidate and retained the seat for the Labour Party with a majority of 3,558 with 42.1% of the vote.[13]

Abrahams was appointed parliamentary private secretary to Andy Burnham and elected Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Health Committee. In 2014, she organised an Inquiry Into The Effectiveness Of International Health Systems[14] which she said demonstrated that "where there is competition, privatisation or marketisation in a health system, health equity worsens". She sought to reassure Clinical commissioning groups that the Labour Party's proposed health reforms would not amount to a top-down ‘big bang’ shake up of the NHS.[15]

She was elected as a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee in July 2015.[16] In September 2015, Abrahams was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in recognition on her work with disabled people in the past.[17] Abrahams was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in June 2016, following Owen Smith's resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in the wake of the EU Referendum result.[18]

In the general election of 8 June 2017 she retained the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat with an increased majority of 8,182.[18]

2018 bullying claims

In March 2018, Abrahams was suspended from her position as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary whilst she was investigated by the Labour Party over a “workplace issue”, reported by several media outlets to be related to claims that she bullied staff;[19] she has vehemently denied the claims, adding that she is the victim of a "bullying culture of the worst kind".[20][21] In May that year she was removed from the Shadow Cabinet. In a statement, Abrahams said: "I strongly refute the allegations of bullying made against me. I believe the investigation was not thorough, fair or independent." She said she would now go to the party's National Executive Committee disputes panel.[22][23]

Awards

In January 2013, Abrahams was awarded the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award in the Business Driver category, for her campaign to improve late payments affecting small businesses. She not only signed up to be a Champion of the Federation of Small Businesses Real-Life Entrepreneurs Campaign, but has been at the forefront of a campaign to improve the speed with which small businesses are paid by their customers.[24]

Personal life

Abrahams married John Abrahams, a former captain of Lancashire County cricket team, in the late 1980s. They have two daughters, both of whom were sent to private schools, despite Abrahams being opposed to selective education.[4]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=BYrHCCIk8GuukqAeYpcNvQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=26 February 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}
2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=61961 |date=19 June 2017 |page=11776}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.debbieabrahams.org.uk |title=Debbie Abrahams official website| accessdate= 8 May 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.24dash.com/news/local_government/2011-01-13-Oldham-candidates-standing-in-todays-by-election |title=Oldham candidates standing in today's by-election |last=Macmillan |first=Ross |date=13 January 2011 |publisher=24dash.com}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/7855/simon-danczuk-announces-new-health-advisor|title=Simon Danczuk announces new health advisor|publisher=Rochdale Online|date=17 March 2008|accessdate=14 January 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/ihia/ |title=About - Institute of Psychology Health and Society |publisher=University of Liverpool |date= |accessdate=19 July 2016}}
7. ^{{cite news|last = Manchester Evening News|title=Health boss quits over private company use|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/health-boss-quits-over-private-1034689|accessdate=22 October 2014|work=Manchester Evening News|date=13 August 2007}}
8. ^{{cite book | editor-last1 = Rallings | editor-first1 = Colin | editor-last2 = Thrasher | editor-first2 = Michael | chapter = Rochdale | chapter-url = http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Local-Elections-Handbook-2008complete.pdf | title = Local elections handbook 2008: the 2008 local election results | page = 47 | publisher = Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth | location = Plymouth | year = 2008 | isbn = 9780948858437 }}
9. ^{{cite news | last = Staff writer |title=Council must share responsibility for damning report|url=http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news/7941/council-must-share-responsibility-for-damning-report|accessdate=22 October 2014|work=Rochdale Online|date=22 March 2008}}
10. ^{{cite news | last = Reed | first = Jonathan | title = The Pennine region: Campaigners seeking a welcome in the hillsides as they focus on valleys | url = https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/the-pennine-region-campaigners-seeking-a-welcome-in-the-hillsides-as-they-focus-on-valleys-1-2571965 | work = Yorkshire Post | date = 23 April 2010 |accessdate=14 January 2011}}
11. ^{{cite news | last = Staff writer |url= http://whoknowswho.channel4.com/stories/Debbie_Abrahams%3A_healthy_development_for_Labour_ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708135120/http://whoknowswho.channel4.com/stories/Debbie_Abrahams%3A_healthy_development_for_Labour_ |dead-url=yes |archive-date=8 July 2011 |title=Debbie Abrahams: healthy development for Labour? | work = Who knows who: showing where power really lies |publisher=Channel 4 |accessdate=14 January 2011 |df=dmy-all }}
12. ^{{cite news |last = editor |url=http://www.saddleworthnews.com/?p=4829 |title=Labour picks Debbie Abrahams for by-election |newspaper=Saddleworth News |date=12 December 2010 |accessdate=28 June 2016}}
13. ^{{cite news | last = Daily Mail Reporter |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347026/Oldham-election-Nick-Clegg-faces-questions-leadership-Lib-Dems-crash.html?ITO=1490 |title=Clegg faces questions over leadership after Lib Dems crash in Oldham by-election |work=Daily Mail|date=14 January 2011 |accessdate=14 January 2011}}
14. ^{{cite news | last = Abrahams | first = Debbie | title = Inquiry into the effectiveness of international health systems | url = https://www.sochealth.co.uk/2014/05/22/inquiry-effectiveness-international-health-systems/ | work = Socialist Health Association | date = 22 May 2014 | access-date = 26 May 2016 }}
15. ^{{cite news| last = Hazell | first = Will|title=Labour seeks to mollify reorganisation fears|url=http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/joint-working/health/labour-seeks-to-mollify-reorganisation-fears/5075843.article|accessdate=22 October 2014|work=Local Government Chronicle|date=16 October 2014}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/membership/|title=Work and Pensions Committee - membership|work=UK Parliament|accessdate=26 September 2015}}
17. ^{{cite news |last = Staff writer |title = DPAC Welcome Debbie Abrahams as the new Shadow Minister for Disabled People |url = https://dpac.uk.net/2015/09/dpac-welcome-debbie-abrahams-as-the-new-shadow-minister-for-disabled-people/ |work = Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) |date=18 September 2015 |accessdate=14 March 2018}}
18. ^{{cite web|last1=Gaul|first1=Phil|title=About Debbie|url=http://www.debbieabrahams.org.uk/debbie-abrahams|website=www.debbieabrahams.org|accessdate=13 November 2017}}
19. ^{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Peter |title=Labours Debbie Abrahams investigated by party over workplace issue |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/11/labours-debbie-abrahams-stands-aside-over-workplace-issue |work=The Guardian |date = 11 March 2018 |accessdate=12 March 2018}}
20. ^{{cite news |last = Staff writer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43367511 |title=Row as Labour's Debbie Abrahams leaves front bench |work=BBC News |date=12 March 2018 |accessdate=12 March 2018}}
21. ^{{cite news | last1 = Demianyk | first1 = Graeme | last2 = Forrester | first2 = Kate | title = Labour's Debbie Abrahams forced to quit Shadow Cabinet over 'workplace issue' | url = http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/debbie-abrahams-labour_uk_5aa582b7e4b01b9b0a3c87bd | work = HuffPost | date = 11 March 2018 | access-date = 15 March 2018}}
22. ^{{cite news |last = Staff writer |title = Debbie Abrahams MP has been sacked from Labour's shadow Cabinet |url = http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2018-05-08/debbie-abrahams-mp-has-been-sacked-from-labours-shadow-cabinet/ |work = Granada Reports |publisher = ITV Granada |date = 8 May 2018 |access-date = 8 May 2018}}
23. ^{{cite news |last = Staff writer |title = Abrahams axed from shadow cabinet over bullying claims |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44048590 |work = BBC News |date = 8 May 2018 |access-date = 10 May 2018}}
24. ^{{cite news|title=Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who |url=http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/whoswho/ |accessdate=27 April 2015 |work=Grassroot Diplomat |date=15 March 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520125406/http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/whoswho/ |archivedate=20 May 2015 |df=dmy }}

External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20150520125406/http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/whoswho/ Debbie Abrahams MP, Grassroot Diplomat]
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