Stella Creasy: Difference between revisions

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| 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 term_end1 = 78 October 20112013

| predecessor1 successor1 = ''Office[[Jack established''Dromey]]

| term_start2 predecessor2 = 6 May[[Neil 2010Gerrard]]

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| term_start4 successor4 = 2 MayAfzal 2002Akram

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| birth_name death_date = Stella Judith Creasy

| party partner = [[Labour andDan Co-operative]]Fox

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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>

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>

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>

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>

[[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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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