Rebecca Long-Bailey

Rebecca Long-Bailey
Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
In office
6 April 2020 – 25 June 2020
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byAngela Rayner
Succeeded byKate Green
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
In office
9 February 2017 – 6 April 2020
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byClive Lewis
Succeeded byEd Miliband
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
27 June 2016 – 9 February 2017
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded bySeema Malhotra
Succeeded byPeter Dowd
Shadow Minister for the Treasury
In office
18 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Member of Parliament
for Salford
Salford and Eccles (2015–2024)
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byHazel Blears
Majority15,101 (38.0%)
Personal details
Born
Rebecca Roseanne Long

(1979-09-22) 22 September 1979 (age 45)
Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Labour Party (2014–2024; suspended and whip withdrawn)
Socialist Campaign Group
SpouseStephen Bailey
Children1
Alma materManchester Metropolitan University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSolicitor
Websitewww.rebeccalongbailey.com Edit this at Wikidata

Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey (née Long; born 22 September 1979)[1] is a British independent, formerly Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford, previously Salford and Eccles, since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn, first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and then as Shadow Business Secretary from 2017 to 2020. Under Keir Starmer, she served as Shadow Education Secretary for only two months in 2020.

Long-Bailey was elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. After Jeremy Corbyn was elected in the 2015 Labour leadership election, Long-Bailey was appointed as a Junior Treasury Minister and was nominated to sit on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.

Long-Bailey was a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, finishing second to Keir Starmer.

In July 2024, Long-Bailey was suspended for a term of six months along with six other Labour MPs from the Labour Left for voting in favour of a proposed Scottish National Party amendment to the king's speech at the 2024 State Opening of Parliament in favour of removing the two-child benefit cap.

  1. ^ Graham Stewart (25 June 2020). "Shifting momentum: why Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey". The Critic. Retrieved 7 June 2021.