Kitty Ussher

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Kitty Ussher (born 18 March 1971, Aylesbury) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She has been the member of Parliament for Burnley since the 2005 general election and is a member of the Labour Party. Ms Ussher was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Burnley from a women-only shortlist.

She was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and Birkbeck College, London, where she took a Master's in Economics. Prior to her election she worked as chief economist for Britain in Europe and as an economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Centre for European Reform. In addition she has worked as secretary to Paul Boateng and as researcher to MPs Martin O’Neill, Kim Howells and Adam Ingram. In 2001 she was appointed as special adviser to Patricia Hewitt in the Department of Trade and Industry. She served as a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth for Vassall ward from 1998 to 2002.

She is married to Pete Colley; they have one daughter.

Ussher is niece of Peter Bottomley, MP, and (many generations back) of Archbishop James Ussher. Burnley elected her cousin Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot as MP in 1910.

[edit] External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Peter Pike		 Member of Parliament for Burnley
2005 – present		 Incumbent
 This article about a current Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../k/i/t/Kitty_Ussher_70a9.html"