Rosie Cooper

Rosie Cooper
Chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Assumed office
30 November 2022
Preceded byBeatrice Fraenkel
Member of Parliament
for West Lancashire
In office
5 May 2005 – 30 November 2022
Preceded byColin Pickthall
Succeeded byAshley Dalton
Lord Mayor of Liverpool
In office
1992–1993
Preceded byTrevor Smith[1]
Succeeded byMichael Black[1]
Member of the Liverpool City Council
In office
1973–2000
Constituency
Personal details
Born
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper

(1950-09-05) 5 September 1950 (age 74)
Liverpool, England
Political partyLabour (1999–present)
Other political
affiliations
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
WebsiteOfficial website

Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper (born 5 September 1950) is a British health official and former politician. Cooper was a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat member of the Liverpool City Council from 1973 until 1999, when she joined the Labour Party. After leaving the council the following year, she was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for West Lancashire from 2005 until her resignation in 2022, when she was named chair of the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018, she was the victim of attempted murder by Jack Renshaw.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Former Mayors and Lord Mayors". Liverpool Town Hall. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Jack Renshaw admits planning to murder MP Rosie Cooper". BBC News. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2024.