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{{short description|British Labour Co-op politician}}
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| name = Stella Creasy
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|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}
| name = Stella Creasy
| caption image = Official portrait, 2020of Stella Creasy MP crop 2.jpg
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]]
|caption = Official portrait, 2020
| image = Official_portrait_of_Stella_Creasy_MP_crop_2.jpg
| office = [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills]]
| caption = Official portrait, 2020
| leader = [[Ed Miliband]]<br />[[Harriet Harman]] (Actingacting)
| office = [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills]]
| term_end1 term_start = 8 October 2013
| leader = [[Ed Miliband]]<br />[[Harriet Harman]] (Acting)
| term_start term_end = 818 OctoberSeptember 20132015
| term_end predecessor = 18 September[[Shabana 2015Mahmood]]
| predecessor successor = [[ShabanaChi MahmoodOnwurah]]
| successor office1 = [[ChiHome Office|Shadow Minister for Crime OnwurahPrevention]]
| office1 leader1 = [[Home Office|Shadow Minister for CrimeEd PreventionMiliband]]
|term_start1 = 7 October 2011
| leader1 = [[Ed Miliband]]
| term_start1 term_end1 = 78 October 20112013
|predecessor1 = Position established
| term_end1 = 8 October 2013
| predecessor1 successor1 = ''Office[[Jack established''Dromey]]
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]]
| successor1 = [[Jack Dromey]]
|term_start2 = 6 May 2010
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]]
| term_start2 predecessor2 = 6 May[[Neil 2010Gerrard]]
|majority2 term_end2 = 17,996 = (39.3%)
|office3 predecessor2 = Mayor of [[NeilWaltham GerrardForest]]
|term_start3 successor2 = May = 2002
| majority2 term_end3 = 30,862May (63.8%)2003
|predecessor3 = Muhammed Fazlur Rahman
| office3 = [[Mayors in England|Mayor]] of [[Waltham Forest]]
| term_start3 successor3 = MayRobert 2002Belam
| office4 = Member of =the [[Waltham Forest Council|Member of Waltham Forest Council]]<br />for [[Lea Bridge]]
| term_end3 = May 2003
| predecessor3 term_start4 = Muhammed2 FazlurMay Rahman2002
|term_end4 successor3 = 4 May = Robert Belam2006
| predecessor4 = Roberto Bruni
| office4 = [[Waltham Forest Council|Member of Waltham Forest Council]]<br />for [[Lea Bridge]]
| term_start4 successor4 = 2 MayAfzal 2002Akram
| term_end4 birth_name = 4Stella MayJudith 2006Creasy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|4|5|df=y}}
| predecessor4 = Roberto Bruni
| birth_place = [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], England
| successor4 = Afzal Akram
| birth_name death_date = Stella Judith Creasy
|death_place =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|4|5|df=y}}
|party = [[Labour and Co-operative]]
| birth_place = [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], England
| party partner = [[Labour andDan Co-operative]]Fox
| partner children = Dan Fox2
| alma_mater education = [[UniversityMagdalene ofCollege, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[London School of Economics]] ([[PhD]])
| children = 2
| website = {{URL|https://www.workingforwalthamstow.org.uk/|Official website}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] (BA)<br />[[London School of Economics]] (PhD)
| module = {{Infobox academic
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| thesis_title = Understanding the lifeworldLifeworld of socialSocial exclusionExclusion
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'''Stella Judith Creasy''' (born 5 April 1977) is a British [[Labour and Co-operative]] politician who has been [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the London constituency of [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]] since [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]].
| profession = Politician, psychologist
| website = {{URL|https://www.workingforwalthamstow.org.uk/}}
}}
'''Stella Judith Creasy''' (born 5 April 1977) is a British [[Labour and Co-operative]] politician who has been [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the London constituency of [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]] since [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]].
 
She served in the frontbench teams of [[Ed Miliband]] and [[Harriet Harman]] from 2011 to 2015. Following the Labour Party's defeat at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], Creasy stood in the [[2015 Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election|Labour Party deputy leadership election]], finishing second to [[Tom Watson (Labour politician)|Tom Watson]]. She was a vocal critic of former Labour leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]] and supported [[Owen Smith]] in the failed attempt to replace him in the [[2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|2016 leadership election]].
 
==Early life and career==
Stella Creasy was born on 5 April 1977 in [[Sutton Coldfield]],{{refn|group=n|Some sources suggest Creasy was born on 1 January 1977. Her father, in a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'', confirmed that 5 April is the correct date.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jan/08/plaque-russians-turgenev-isle-of-wight|title=Brief Letters: Plaque Russians|work=The Guardian|date=8 January 2013}}</ref>}}<ref name="Coleman">{{cite news|last=Coleman|first=John|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1574880.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065324/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1574880.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Relative Values: Stella Creasy and her mum, Corinna|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|date=5 July 2015|quote=CORINNA My parents came from a very aristocratic background, so it never occurred to them to be anything other than Tory. I grew up in Bushey in Hertfordshire and I went to a public school called St Margaret’s. At college, I realised how enormously privileged I was, so partly out of a sense of guilt, I joined the Labour party.|access-date=8 June 2019|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and is the daughter of Corinna Frances Avril ({{nee|Martin}}) and Philip Charles Creasy; her father is a trained [[opera singer]] and her mother a headteacher of a [[special needs school]].<ref name="Coleman" /><ref name="Addley">{{cite news |first=Esther |last=Addley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/01/stella-creasy-mp-politics-twitter-tories |title=Stella Creasy: the MP who 'won't back down' |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=1 August 2013}}</ref> Her elder brother, Matthew Henry Creasy, (born in 1974), is an [[academic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/matthewcreasy/|title=University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Our staff - Dr Matthew Creasy|website=www.gla.ac.uk}}</ref> Creasy's mother described her own parents as "very aristocratic" and herself as "enormously privileged", which contributed to herCorinna Martin's decision to join the Labour Party.<ref name="Coleman"/>
 
After spending her early childhood in the [[Manchester]] suburb of [[Didsbury]], herCreasy's family moved to [[Colchester]] where Creasyshe attended [[Colchester County High School|Colchester County High School for Girls]], a [[grammar school]].<ref name="Coleman" /><ref name="Addley" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Todd |title=Labour deputy hopeful Stella Creasy issues devolution warning to Greater Manchester's leaders |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/labour-deputy-hopeful-stella-creasy-9970438 |website=Manchester Evening News |publisher=Manchester Evening News |access-date=17 June 2020 |date=1 September 2015}}</ref> Although she initially failed the [[Eleven plus exam|eleven-plus exam]], the Creasy's family's move south gave her a second chance.<ref name="Addley"/> CreasyShe then attended [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] where she read [[Social sciences|Social]] and [[Political Sciences]] before earning a PhD in at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE) with a thesis titled ''"Understanding the lifeworld of social exclusion"''.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Creasy|first=Stella Judith|title=Understanding the lifeworld of social exclusion|date=2006|degree=PhD|publisher=London School of Economics |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.429036}}|website=lse.ac.uk|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3798/|oclc=500283354|doi=10.21953/lse.vwxamjarbb08|language=en}} {{free access}}</ref><ref name="Day251112">{{cite news |last=Day |first=Elizabeth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2012/nov/25/stella-creasy-labour-wonga |title=Stella Creasy: Labour's rising star who's taking on Wonga |newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 November 2012 |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> In the 1990s, towards the end of [[John Major]]'s period as prime minister, Creasy was an intern at the [[Fabian Society]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bland |first=Archie |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-could-the-wonga-baiting-indie-loving-mp-tweet-her-way-to-no-10-9530148.html |title=Stella Creasy: Could the Wonga-baiting, indie-loving MP tweet her way to No 10? |newspaper=The Independent |date=13 June 2014 |access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>
 
Creasy was deputy director of the [[Involve (think tank)|Involve]] [[think tank]] and worked as a [[researcher]] and [[speech writer]] for various [[Brown ministry|Labour government]] [[Minister (government)|minister]]s, including [[Douglas Alexander]], [[Charles Clarke]] and [[Ross Cranston]].<ref name="ref8">{{cite web|title=Members Of Parliament in Walthamstow|url=http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/li/member_of_parliament.in.Walthamstow/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Stella Creasy – Biography|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/stella-creasy}}</ref> She then became head of public affairs at the [[Scout Association]].<ref name="prw-20100511">{{cite news |url=http://www.prweek.com/channel/PublicAffairs/article/1002450/many-lobbyists-win-seats-majority-decreased |title=Many lobbyists win seats but some see majority decreased |author=David Singleton |publisher=PR Week |date=11 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321022751/http://www.prweek.com/channel/PublicAffairs/article/1002450/many-lobbyists-win-seats-majority-decreased |archive-date=21 March 2011}}</ref> In 2006, having already started work as a parliamentary researcher, she completed her [[thesis]], receiving a doctorate in [[Social Psychology]] from LSE.<ref name="Day251112"/> Creasy received a [[Richard Titmuss|Titmuss]] Prize in 2005 for her thesis.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/09/stella-creasy-general-school |title=20 under 40: Stella Creasy |newspaper=New Statesman |date=22 September 2011 |access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref>
 
Elected as a [[councillor]] in [[Waltham Forest]] in [[2002 United Kingdom local elections|2002]],<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Waltham Forest 1964–2010 – Elections Centre |url=http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Waltham-Forest-1964-2010.pdf |access-date= |website=}}</ref> Creasy served as the borough's [[deputy mayor]] and later [[mayor]] from 2002 until 2003 and for four months in 2010.<ref name="ref8" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Mayor |url=https://walthamforest.gov.uk/content/mayor |access-date=17 June 2019 |website=Waltham Forest Council}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Walthamstow Memories – Walthamstow Mayors |url=http://www.walthamstowmemories.net/html/walthmayors.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108161356/http://www.walthamstowmemories.net/html/walthmayors.html |archive-date=8 January 2018 |access-date=6 July 2015 |website=www.walthamstowmemories.net}}</ref>
==Political career==
 
Elected as a [[councillor]] in [[London Borough of Waltham Forest|Waltham Forest]] in [[2002 United Kingdom local elections|2002]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Waltham Forest 1964-2010 - Elections Centre|url=http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Waltham-Forest-1964-2010.pdf|access-date=|website=}}</ref> Creasy served as the borough's [[deputy mayor]] and later [[mayor]] from 2002 until 2003 and for four months in 2010 prior to her election to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]].<ref name="ref8" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://walthamforest.gov.uk/content/mayor|title=The Mayor|website=Waltham Forest Council|access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walthamstowmemories.net/html/walthmayors.html|title=Walthamstow Memories - Walthamstow Mayors|website=www.walthamstowmemories.net}}</ref> After the retirement of Labour MP, [[Neil Gerrard]], Creasy was selected from an [[all-female shortlist]] as the party's candidate for [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]], and was elected to [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Owen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/03/stella-creasy-labour |title=The 32-year-old ex-mayor who hopes to bring activists and party together |newspaper=The Guardian |date=3 August 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/e88.stm Election 2010– Walthamstow] BBC News</ref> She supported [[David Miliband]]'s bid for the Labour Party leadership in 2010.<ref name="The Independent">{{Cite news|date=2014-06-14|title=Stella Creasy: Could the Wonga-baiting, indie-loving MP tweet her way|language=en-GB|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-could-the-wonga-baiting-indie-loving-mp-tweet-her-way-to-no-10-9530148.html|access-date=2018-05-28}}</ref>
==PoliticalParliamentary career==
After the retirement of Labour MP, [[Neil Gerrard]], Creasy was selected from an [[all-female shortlist]] as the party's candidate for [[Walthamstow (UK Parliament constituency)|Walthamstow]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Paul |date=3 August 2009 |title=The 32-year-old ex-mayor who hopes to bring activists and party together |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/03/stella-creasy-labour |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> At the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]], Creasy was elected to Parliament as MP for Walthamstow, winning with 51.8% of the vote and a majority of 9,478 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Walthamstow |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/e88.stm |access-date=7 May 2010 |work=Election 2010 |publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref name="kimber2010">{{cite web |title=UK General Election results May 2010 |url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge10/i23.htm |access-date=2 September 2012 |work=Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources}}</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/e88.stm Election 2010– Walthamstow] BBC News</ref>
 
She supported [[David Miliband]]'s bid for the Labour Party leadership in 2010.<ref name="The Independent">{{Cite news|date=2014-06-14|title=Stella Creasy: Could the Wonga-baiting, indie-loving MP tweet her way|language=en-GB|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-could-the-wonga-baiting-indie-loving-mp-tweet-her-way-to-no-10-9530148.html|access-date=2018-05-28}}</ref>
 
Creasy joined Labour's frontbench team in October 2011 as [[Home Office|Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/10/ed-miliband-fourth-reshuffle-shadow-cabinet|work=The Guardian|date=11 August 2013|last=Boffey|first=Daniel|title=Ed Miliband plans fourth reshuffle to shake up shadow cabinet}}</ref> She then served as [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills|Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills]] from October 2013 to September 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://labourlist.org/2013/10/confirmed-labours-new-frontbench-team-in-full/|title=Confirmed: Labour's new frontbench team in full {{!}} LabourList|date=2013-10-08|work=LabourList {{!}} Labour's biggest independent grassroots e-network|access-date=2018-05-28|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24443444|work=BBC|date=8 October 2013|title=Diane Abbott axed as shadow health minister by Ed Miliband}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34288573|work=BBC|date=18 September 2015|title=Jeremy Corbyn's full frontbench team unveiled}}</ref> In 2014, she was described in a ''The Independent'' profile as "one of the brightest lights of Labour's new generation" though also as "haranguing" and "aggressive".<ref name="The Independent"/> She supported the [[No More Page 3]] campaign to stop ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' newspaper from publishing pictures of topless glamour models.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Orr|first1=Deborah|last2=Creasy|first2=Stella|last3=Bindel|first3=Julie|last4=Short|first4=Clare|last5=Bates|first5=Laura|last6=Bidisha|last7=Toynbee|first7=Polly|last8=Khaleeli|first8=Homa|last9=Whitehorn|first9=Katharine|date=20 January 2015|title=Is the Sun's scrapping of Page 3 topless models a victory for women?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/sun-scrapping-page-3-topless-victory-women|newspaper=The Guardian|last10=Sladden|first10=Katherine}}</ref>
 
Creasy was re-elected atAt the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], Creasy was re-elected as MP for Walthamstow with aan increased vote share of 68.9% and substantiallyan increased majority of 23,195.<ref securingname="electoralcalculus2015">{{cite aweb |title=Election Data 2015 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-date=17% increaseOctober 2015 |access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=[[Electoral Calculus]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=London Green Party &#124; 2015 General Election |url=http://www.london.greenparty.org.uk/elections/2015-general-election.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425003222/http://london.greenparty.org.uk/elections/2015-general-election.html |archive-date=25 April 2015 |access-date=29 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="tusc-candidates-2015-02-04">{{Cite web |date=4 February 2015 |title=TUSC parliamentary candidates in theMay share2015 of|url=http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/320.pdf the|url-status=live vote|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207020421/http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/320.pdf |archive-date=2015-02-07 |access-date=6 February 2015 |website=[[Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition]]}}</ref> Following the Labour Party's defeat in the election, she stood in the [[2015 Labour Party (UK) deputy leadership election|Labour Party deputy leadership election]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Bush|first=Stephen|date=16 May 2015|title=Stella Creasy announces she will stand for the deputy leadership of the Labour party|work=New Statesman|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/stella-creasy-announces-she-will-stand-deputy-leadership-labour-party|access-date=30 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Dathan|first=Matt|date=17 June 2015|title=Stella Creasy scrapes through as five make it onto the ballot for deputy Labour leadership election|work=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-scrapes-through-as-five-make-it-onto-the-ballot-for-deputy-labour-leadership-contest-10326395.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-scrapes-through-as-five-make-it-onto-the-ballot-for-deputy-labour-leadership-contest-10326395.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=30 July 2015}}</ref> She stated she was prepared to work with any of the candidates for the party leadership, including [[Jeremy Corbyn]], saying, "that process of rebuilding isn’t about any one person it's about all of us. It's written on the back of our membership card that we achieve more together than we do alone."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lewis|first=Helen|date=11 August 2015|title=Stella Creasy rages against the political machine, but can she break it?|work=New Statesman|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/stella-creasy-rages-against-political-machine-can-she-break-it|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Midgley|first=Carol|date=22 August 2015|title='It's not a question of left or right — Labour's challenge is to be relevant'|work=The Times|location=London|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4534734.ece|url-access=subscription|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> She gained 26% of the vote and finished second to [[Tom Watson (Labour politician)|Tom Watson]]. She did not back any of the final four leadership candidates.<ref>{{cite news|last=Addley|first=Esther|date=1 November 2015|title=Stella Creasy: 'New politics? I'm still waiting for that to happen'|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/01/stella-creasy-interview|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref>

She later became a vocal critic of Corbyn and said the party under his leadership was "running on empty".<ref name=":1">{{cite news|last=Creasy|first=Stella|date=1 July 2016|title=Labour is a party running on empty|work=New Statesman|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/07/stella-creasy-labour-party-running-empty|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> She supported [[Owen Smith]] in the failed attempt to replace Corbyn in the [[2016 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|2016 Labour Party leadership election]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-07-21|title=Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith|url=https://labourlist.org/2016/07/which-mps-and-meps-have-nominated-owen-smith/|access-date=2019-07-15|website=LabourList|language=en-GB}}</ref> Also in 2016, she criticised Corbyn after he endorsed decriminalisation of the sex industry and accused left-wing campaign group [[Momentum (organisation)|Momentum]] of being more interested in "meetings and moralising" than real campaigning.<ref>{{cite news|last=Watts|first=Joseph|date=8 March 2016|title=Stella attacks Jeremy Corbyn for his call to decriminalise sex industry|work=London Evening Standard|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/stella-creasy-attacks-jeremy-corbyn-for-call-to-decriminalise-sex-industry-a3198176.html|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Mason|first=Rowena|date=24 March 2016|title=Labour MP Stella Creasy attacks Momentum movement|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/24/labour-mp-stella-creasy-attacks-momentum-movement|access-date=23 July 2016}}</ref>
 
SheCreasy supported Remain in the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|EU referendum]] in June 2016<ref>{{cite web |last1=Creasy |first1=Stella |title=About Stella |url=https://workingforwalthamstow.org.uk/content/about-stella |website=Stella Creasy MP |publisher=Stella Creasy |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref> and voted against the triggering of [[United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union|Article 50]] in February 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2017/02/how-labour-mps-voted-on-article-50/|title=How Labour MPs voted on article 50|website=[[LabourList]]|date=1 February 2017|access-date=14 November 2021}}</ref>
 
[[File:Stella Creasy, 2016 Labour Party Conference 2.jpg|thumb|Creasy speaking at the 2016 Labour Party Conference]]
At the snap [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]], herCreasy majority increasedwas again, re-elected with aan 12increased vote share of 80.6% increaseand inan theincreased sharemajority of the32,017.<ref>{{cite votenews |title=Walthamstow parliamentary constituency |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001013 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225205506/http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2018 |access-date=25 February She2018}}</ref>

Creasy argued in September 2018 that [[misogyny]] should be made a hate crime.<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 September 2018|title=Make misogyny a hate crime, Stella Creasy urges|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-politics-45408492}}</ref> In June 2019, she described the culture of the Labour movement as toxic.<ref>{{cite news|date=19 June 2019|title=Stella Creasy: The culture of the Labour movement is toxic|work=Sky News|url=https://news.sky.com/story/stella-creasy-the-culture-of-the-labour-movement-is-toxic-11744638|access-date=20 June 2019}}</ref> Later that year, she was protected from a potential trigger ballot and deselection by her local party as she was on maternity leave.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://labourlist.org/2019/09/rolling-list-trigger-ballots-for-labour-mps/|title=Rolling list: Trigger ballots for Labour MPs|last=Rodgers|first=Sienna|date=12 September 2019|access-date=17 October 2019|work=Labour List}}</ref>
 
At the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]], Creasy was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 76.1% and a decreased majority of 30,682.<ref>{{cite news |title=Walthamstow Parliamentary constituency |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14001013 |access-date=23 November 2019 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}</ref> She was again re-elected at the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]] with a decreased vote share of 59.3% and a decreased majority of 17,996.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Walthamstow - General election results 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001563 |access-date=2024-08-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
 
===Payday loans===
Creasy has campaigned successfully for more regulation of [[payday loans]] companies.<ref name=circling>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/03/legal-loan-sharks-regulating |title=Legal loan sharks are circling the poor |last=Creasy |first=Stella |date=3 February 2011 |access-date=25 September 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> In an article published by ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2012, she stated that just six companies controlled lending to 90% of the seven million Britons without a bank account or credit card. She highlighted that the average cost of credit charged to these customers was 272% APR, as in the rest of Europe, and that there was a fourfold increase in [[payday loans]] since the start of the recession in 2008, which led to cross-party parliamentary support for a cap.<ref name=circling/> Creasy also highlighted in a speech to the House of Commons the lack of competition in the market, leading to Government support for a cap of loans which exploit the poor, which in some cases reached 4000% APR.<ref name=beebloan>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_9385000/9385208.stm|date=3 February 2011|access-date=25 September 2012|work=[[BBC News]]|title=MP urges government crack-down on legal loan sharks}}</ref> Creasy won ''[[The Spectator]]'' magazine's Campaigner of the Year prize in their Parliamentarian of the Year awards in 2011 for her work on the issue,<ref>{{cite news|last=Forsyth|first=James|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2011/11/labours-new-golden-girl/|title=Labour's new golden girl|work=The Spectator|date=26 November 2011|access-date=11 September 2016}}</ref> and was also acknowledged by the [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|coalition government]]'s Chancellor [[George Osborne]] for having contributed to the government's change of policy.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Osborne rushes in law to cap payday loan rates|last=Murphy|first=Joe|date=25 November 2013|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|page=2}}</ref>
 
In 2012, a [[Wonga.com|Wonga]] employee used company equipment to make offensive personal attacks against Creasy.<ref name=apol>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/21/wonga-apologises-stella-creasy-abusive-twitter-messages|title=Wonga apologises to Stella Creasy over abusive Twitter messages|author=Mark King|publisher=Guardian newspapers|date=21 November 2012|access-date=21 November 2012}}</ref> Wonga made an "immediate and unreserved apology" following these malicious attacks, and Creasy also managed to get the firm to promote one of her constituency events in aid of struggling families.<ref name=apol/>
 
===Abortion rights===
[[Abortion in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland|Abortion law in Northern Ireland]] is more restrictive than elsewhere in the United Kingdom, resulting in many women travelling from [[Northern Ireland]] to [[Great Britain]] to access abortion services. In 2017, a potential amendment to the [[Speech from the throne|Queen's Speech]], organised by Creasy, calling for the Government to allocate adequate funding for women who are forced to travel to England to have an abortion, gained cross-party support and was ultimately signed by 100 MPs, threatening a government defeat.<ref>{{cite news|last=Merrick|first=Rob|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-northern-ireland-abortion-britain-travel-charges-costs-dup-deal-tory-conservative-a7814496.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-northern-ireland-abortion-britain-travel-charges-costs-dup-deal-tory-conservative-a7814496.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Theresa May scrambles to avoid a defeat on abortion charges for Northern Irish women forced to travel to Britain|work=The Independent|date=29 June 2017|access-date=29 June 2017}}</ref> [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP [[Peter Bottomley]] was a co-signer of Creasy's amendment. In answer to a question from Bottomley in the Commons on 29 June 2017, [[Philip Hammond]], Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the government would support free abortions on the mainland for Northern Irish women.<ref name="Elgot">{{cite news|last1=Elgot|first1=Jessica|last2=McDonald|first2=Henry|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/rebel-tories-could-back-northern-ireland-abortion-amendment|title=Government to give Northern Irish women access to free abortions|work=The Guardian|date=29 June 2017|access-date=29 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="Hughes">{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Laura|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/philip-hammond-announces-ni-women-will-given-free-abortions/|title=Philip Hammond announces NI women will be given free abortions in England|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=29 June 2017|access-date=29 June 2017}}</ref> Earlier in June, a Supreme Court ruling upheld the legal basis for a charge of £900 for women from the province seeking an abortion on the mainland, whereas other necessary treatments on the NHS would have been free.<ref name="Elgot"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Creasy|first=Stella|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/23/northern-ireland-women-abortion-law-terminations|title=Northern Irish women deserve equality. That's why I'm challenging abortion law|work=The Guardian|date=23 June 2017|access-date=29 June 2017}}</ref> Creasy was cautious in her response to the development. "The devil will be in the detail", she said.<ref name="Hughes"/> She was reported to have received threats from some anti-abortion activists.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/stella-creasy-received-jo-coxstyle-death-threat-from-antiabortion-activist-a3581291.html|title=Stella Creasy 'received Jo Cox-style death threat from anti-abortion activist'|work=Evening Standard|access-date=2018-06-11|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-death-threat-anti-abortion-activist-jo-cox-die-labour-mp-walthamstow-london-northern-a7825181.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-death-threat-anti-abortion-activist-jo-cox-die-labour-mp-walthamstow-london-northern-a7825181.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Anti-abortion activist tells Labour MP 'hopefully she will die like Jo Cox'|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-06-11|language=en-GB}}</ref>
 
In June 2022, after the [[United States Supreme Court]] overturned [[Roe v. Wade]], Creasy said that she would table an amendment to the [[Bill of Rights Bill]] which would make access to abortion a human right.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Oppenheim |first1=Maya |title=Stella Creasy moves to make abortion a human right in British Bill of Rights |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stella-creasy-british-bill-of-rights-abortion-b2111424.html |access-date=29 June 2022 |work=The Independent |date=28 June 2022}}</ref>
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===Anti-war protests===
Creasy allegedly received threats via social media following her vote for extending UK military action against [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]] to Syria after the parliamentary debate on 2 December 2015.<ref name="Butter">{{cite news|last=Butter|first=Susannah|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/the-battle-for-stella-creasys-streets-how-a-growing-antiwar-divide-is-forming-in-walthamstow-a3128921.html|title=The battle for Stella Creasy's streets: how the bombing of Syria is causing a growing divide in Walthamstow|work=London Evening Standard|date=3 December 2015|access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref> Creasy was undecided until the day of the vote, while staff in her Walthamstow constituency office had to deal with what they referred to as harassing telephone calls.<ref name=es-20151205/> Protesters had gathered outside the closed constituency office the previous night urging a 'no' vote.<ref name="Butter"/><ref name=es-20151205>{{cite news|last=Marshall|first=Tom|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/stella-creasy-defends-antiwar-protesters-who-marched-on-her-walthamstow-office-a3130306.html|title=Stella Creasy defends anti-war protesters who marched on her Walthamstow office|work=London Evening Standard|date=5 December 2015|access-date=6 December 2015}}</ref> On [[Facebook]], Creasy defended their right to peaceful protest.<ref>{{cite news|last=McSmith|first=Andy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syria-air-strikes-stella-creasy-has-become-a-prime-target-for-deselection-a6759516.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syria-air-strikes-stella-creasy-has-become-a-prime-target-for-deselection-a6759516.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Why Stella Creasy has become prime target for deselection over Syria vote|work=The Independent|date=3 December 2015|access-date=6 December 2015}}</ref> Reports that protesters had gathered outside her home proved to be unfounded.<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenslade|first=Roy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/dec/04/stella-creasy-crushes-story-about-protest-outside-her-house|title=Stella Creasy crushes story about protest outside her house|work=The Guardian|date=4 December 2015|access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=bbc->{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/comp-reports/ecu/today03122015 |title=Today, Radio 4, 3 December 2015: Finding by the Editorial Complaints Unit |publisher=BBC |work=Editorial Complaints Unit |access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref>
 
=== Maternity leave ===
In May 2021, Creasy asked for maternity leave under the same conditions as Attorney General [[Suella Braverman]], who was granted full maternity leave under the [[Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021]].<ref name=“eye1551”"eye1551">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Mothers Rueing|magazine=[[Private Eye]]|date=9 July 2021|editor1-last=Hislop |editor1-first=Ian |editor1-link=Ian Hislop|issue=1551|page=16}}</ref>
 
=== Social services complaint ===
In April 2023 Creasy revealed that she had been subject to a baseless complaint to social services. She had been investigated by her local council after it had received a report from a man using the alias Lance Jones. ''[[The Times]]'' reported that the man had contacted [[Waltham Forest Council]] to complain that the MP's "extreme views" would damage her children and they should be removed from her care. The complainant, who apologised, had no personal connection to Creasy or her two young children.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |date=2023-04-29 |title=Stella Creasy says police ‘green'green lighting’lighting' trolls to target politicians’politicians' children |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/29/stella-creasy-targeted-by-troll-who-tried-to-have-her-children-removed-report |access-date=2023-05-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |title=Stella Creasy: Online troll called social services on MP he disagreed with |newspaper= [[The Times]]|language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stella-creasy-online-troll-called-social-services-on-mp-he-disagreed-with-2pdfrd2cd |access-date=2023-05-08 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
 
=== Views on transgender matters===
Stella Creasy has said "some women were born with penises’ and that ‘a trans woman is an adult human female’"<ref>{{cite webnews|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/05/29/anneliese-dodds-stella-creasy-wrong-woman-cant-have-penis/|title=Anneliese Dodds: Stella Creasy is wrong - a woman can’tcan't have a penis|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=29 May 2022 |last1=Pinkstone |first1=Joe }}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
Creasy's partner is Dan Fox, a former director of [[Labour Friends of Israel]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/18/stella-creasy-said-partner-pregnant-mp-highlights-parliament-maternity-rights-9995819/|title=What has Stella Creasy said about her partner as the pregnant MP highlights Parliament maternity rights?|last=Milan|first=Aidan|date=18 June 2019|access-date=20 June 2019|work=The Metro}}</ref> In June 2019, she announced she was pregnant.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/17/pregnant-mp-maternity-leave-equality-stella-creasy|title=I'm pregnant and forced to choose between being an MP and a mum|last=Creasy|first=Stella|date=2019-06-17|work=The Guardian}}</ref> She gave birth to a daughter in November 2019 and, after campaigning for better [[Parental leave|maternity rights]] for MPs, became the first MP to appoint a 'locum MP', Kizzy Gardiner, to manage constituency work.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49922613|title='Locum MP' to cover Stella Creasy maternity|date=2019-10-03|work=BBC News|access-date=2020-02-15|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/stella-creasy-dan-fox-baby-announcement-instagram-pic-labour-gain/331070|title=Stella Creasy announces her birth with a clever Labour pun|last=Geall|first=Lauren|date=2019-11-28|website=Stylist|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/stella-creasy-kizzy-gardiner-interview-a4279186.html|title=Stella Creasy on being the first MP to have maternity cover and why misogyny is still a blind spot|last=Fishwick|first=Samuel|date=2019-11-05|website=Evening Standard|language=en|access-date=2020-07-13}}</ref> In February 2021, announcing her second pregnancy, she challenged government proposals to limit new plans for parliamentary maternity leave to government ministers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stella Creasy threatens legal action over paid maternity leave for ministers |work=BBC News |date=11 February 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56023219 }}</ref>
 
==Notes See also ==
[[Everywoman Safe Everywhere - Labour's Consultation on Women's Safety]]
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