Maureen Burke
Councillor Maureen Burke MP | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Anne McLaughlin |
| Majority | 4,637 (13.6%) |
| Glasgow City Council Councillor for North East | |
| Assumed office 3 May 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | John Wheatley College |
Maureen Burke (born September 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East since 2024.[1]
She is also a sitting Glasgow City Councillor.[2]
Political career
[edit]Since the 2012 Glasgow City Council election she has represented the North East ward on Glasgow City Council as a Councillor,[2] and is currently the chair of the Glasgow City Council Operational Performance and Delivery Scrutiny Committee.[3]
She was a remunerated director of Glasgow East Women's Aid[4] before its liquidation in March 2024.[5]
At the 2024 United Kingdom general election she was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East with a majority of 4637 votes over the incumbent Anne McLaughlin.[6]
Pre-Political Career
[edit]Burke worked as a factory operative at A. & J. Gelfer Ltd, a tie manufacturing factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow from the age of 15,[7] before moving into administrative support for the company, which went into liquidation in December 2000.[8] She then studied at John Wheatley College, aged 40 before working as a parliamentary assistant for former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Baillieston and MP for Glasgow East, Margaret Curran until the 2015 general election.
Personal life
[edit]Burke lives in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow with her husband. She has one daughter and two granddaughters.
Parliamentary Career
[edit]One of her first votes in parliament on July 23rd 2024, was a vote against ending the Two-Child Limit to benefit payments.[9]
Evidence to embezzlement trial of ex-colleague
[edit]In 2018, as a sitting Councillor, Burke gave evidence at Glasgow Sheriff Court in the trial of an ex-Labour councillor, Yvonne Kucuk, for whom Burke worked as a personal assistant.[10] The case examined the embezzlement of £8690 from local charity the 'People's Development Trust' – in 2016 Burke was in possession of a bag with £2000 in cash, a mobile phone and some paperwork given by Kucuk and was asked to return it to the trust; she had handed the bag over to the then, trust manager Michael Kennedy, who proceeded to count the money in front of Burke.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Election 2024 > Glasgow North East results". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Councillor Maureen Burke".
- ^ "Committee Information - Committee Members". Glasgow City Council.
- ^ "Register of Interests: Maureen Burke". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's Aid staff given 'no notice' before closure amid bullying allegations". STV News. 8 March 2024.
- ^ "Election 2024 > Glasgow North East results". BBC News. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Hilley, Sarah (14 May 2021). "Glasgow Election 2022: North East candidates push for more police and more funding". glasgowlive.co.uk. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Dora Street Bridgeton".
- ^ "King's Speech (Motion for an Address): Amendment (d) - Commons' votes in Parliament - UK Parliament".
- ^ Former councillor accused of embezzling £8k from trust, Glasgow Times, 13 October 2018
- ^ Ex-Glasgow councillor 'handed over bag containing £2,000', BBC News, 12 October 2018
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