Louise Ellman

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Louise Ellman (born 14 November 1945) is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside.

Louise Elllman was born in Manchester. She was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls, before studying at the University of Hull where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1967, and went on to study at the University of York where she was awarded a Master of Philosophy in 1972. In 1970 she worked as a lecturer for the Open University in further education, leaving in 1976. She was elected as a councillor on the Lancashire County Council in 1970, becoming the Labour group leader in 1977, and she led the council from 1981 until her election to Parliament. She unsuccessfully contested the Darwen constituency at the 1979 General Election where she was defeated by the sitting veteran Conservative MP Charles Fletcher-Cooke by 13,026 votes.

She was elected to Parliament at the 1997 General Election for the safe seat of Liverpool Riverside on the retirement of Bob Parry. She held the seat with a majority of 21,799 and has held the seat comfortably since. She made her maiden speech on June 9, 1997, [1]. She has been a member of the Transport Select Committee and its predecessor Transport, Local Government and the Regions since her election in 1997. Ellman is also the Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel and has been an active spokeswoman in Parliament on issues relating to transport, local government and the Middle East. She has also played an active effort in the effort to pressure the Bulgarian government to free Michael Shields