Ann Coffey

Ann Coffey
Official portrait, 2018
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
ChancellorAlistair Darling
Preceded byAnn Keen
Succeeded byGreg Hands
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
2 May 1997 – 28 July 1998
Serving with Bruce Grocott
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byJohn Ward
Succeeded byBruce Grocott
Member of Parliament
for Stockport
In office
9 April 1992 – 6 November 2019
Preceded byAnthony Favell
Succeeded byNavendu Mishra
Personal details
Born
Margaret Ann Brown

(1946-08-31) 31 August 1946 (age 78)
Inverness, Scotland
Political partyIndependent (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Change UK (2019)
Labour (before 2019)
Spouses
Thomas Coffey
(m. 1973; div. 1989)
Peter Saraga
(m. 1998; his death[1] 2023)
Children1
EducationBorough Polytechnic Institute (BSc)
Walsall College (PGCE)
University of Manchester (MSc)
Other offices

Margaret Ann Coffey (née Brown; born 31 August 1946)[2] is a British former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1992 to 2019.[3][4][5][6] A former member of the Labour Party, she defected to form Change UK.

Coffey resigned from the Labour Party in 2019 in protest at the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and, with six others, formed Change UK.[7]

  1. ^ https://www.iop.org/physics-community/obituaries/professor-peter-saraga [bare URL]
  2. ^ Anon (2017). "COFFEY, (Margaret) Ann". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.11372. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Ann Coffey MP official website". anncoffeymp.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Guardian Unlimited Politics—Ask Aristotle: Ann Coffey MP". Archived from the original on 8 September 2008.
  5. ^ "Ann Coffey MP". TheyWorkForYou.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  6. ^ "BBC Politics, Ann Coffey".[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Seven MPs leave Labour in Corbyn protest". BBC News. 18 February 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.