Liz McInnes

Liz McInnes
Member of Parliament
for Heywood and Middleton
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 October 2014
Preceded by Jim Dobbin
Majority 617 (2.2%)
Personal details
Born 1959
Oldham, Lancashire
Political party Labour

Elizabeth Anne McInnes (born 1959) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton since being elected at the 2014 by-election caused by the death of the incumbent MP, Jim Dobbin.[1]

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, she was educated at Hathershaw Comprehensive School. She studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford and completed a masters degree at the University of Surrey. Since 1981 she has worked for the NHS and was employed as a senior biochemist at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust until the by-election. She was Branch Secretary of the Pennine Acute Branch for the Unite Trades Union[2] and a member of the Healthcare Science organising professional committee.[3] McInnes has been a Rossendale borough councillor for Longholme ward where she was the health lead since 2010.[4][5]

She has lived in Rawtenstall with her partner, Steve Duxbury and their son, Sam, since 2000.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Labour wins Middleton by-election, but UKIP slashes majority". BBC News Online. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Union fury as G4S ‘clean-up’ at Pennine Acute". Rochdale online. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Healthcare Science organising professional committee". Unite the Union. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Lancashire councillor Liz McInnes to stand as Labour candidate in Heywood and Middleton by-election Manchester Evening News
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ "Thoughts and stuff from a Labour Councillor in Rossendale". CouncillorLiz. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

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