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 Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 July 2024 – 20 July 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | David TC Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Stephen Kinnock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of Parliament for Cardiff East Cardiff Central (2015–2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jenny Willott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 9,097 (23.3%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Joanna Meriel Stevens 6 September 1966 (aged 60) Swansea, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joanna Meriel "Jo" Stevens (born 6 September 1966)[1] is a Welsh Labour Party politician in the UK House of Commons. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff Central in the May 2015 general election.[2] She was born in Swansea, Wales.
In Jeremy Corbyn's January 2016 reshuffle, she was appointed shadow solicitor general and shadow justice minister. In October 2016 reshuffle, after Corbyn's re-election as party leader, Stevens became Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.[3] She resigned from the shadow cabinet on 27 January 2017, due to a disagreement over triggering article 50.[4]
References
- ↑ Jo Stevens MP. myparliament.infoMyParliament. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ Cardiff Central Parliamentary constituencyBBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ (in en-GB) As it happened: Steven Woolfe in hospital and Labour reshuffle. 6 October 2016. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-37572198. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ Elgot, Jessica. Labour MP Jo Stevens quits shadow cabinet over article 50 vote. The Guardian (27 January 2017). Retrieved 27 January 2017.