Katy Clark

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Katy Clark (born 3 July 1967) is a British politician and trade union official. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran.

Clark was educated at the University of Aberdeen and was the chairwoman of the Labour club there. She is a solicitor turned legal officer with UNISON in London, and unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale at the 1997 General Election, a traditional Conservative and Scottish National Party (SNP) marginal. She finished in third place, but the main story there being that the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ian Lang had lost his seat to the SNP's Alasdair Morgan.

She was elected to the House of Commons at the 2005 General Election for the new seat of North Ayrshire and Arran, based substantially on the former seat of Cunninghame North whose MP, Brian Wilson had retired, and the towns of Stevenston and Kilwinning from the old Cunninghame South. She had a majority of 11,296, and made her maiden speech on June 7, 2005.[1]

Clark is one of the few leftwing members of the 2005 intake of MPs and is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and the Scottish Labour Party Campaign for Socialism; of the twenty-four members of the Campaign Group, she is the only one under the age of 50.

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• The Labour Party - Katy Clark MP official biography
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Katy Clark MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Katy Clark MP
• The Public Whip - Katy Clark MP voting record