Difference between revisions of "Kate Hoey"
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Hoey has complained that the UK Labour Party, which is openly socialist and committed to globalism, has become "extremely unpatriotic".<ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/06/kate-hoey-labour-has-become-extremely-unpatriotic-party Kate Hoey: Labour has become an “extremely unpatriotic” party] </ref> Kate Hoey was also the only Labour politician to vote against allowing [[abortion]] and same-sex 'marriage' in Northern Ireland. | Hoey has complained that the UK Labour Party, which is openly socialist and committed to globalism, has become "extremely unpatriotic".<ref>[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/06/kate-hoey-labour-has-become-extremely-unpatriotic-party Kate Hoey: Labour has become an “extremely unpatriotic” party] </ref> Kate Hoey was also the only Labour politician to vote against allowing [[abortion]] and same-sex 'marriage' in Northern Ireland. | ||
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| + | On 29 July 2019, Hoey described the dismissal of [[Paul Embery]], who she described as a "heroic firefighter", from his position in the Fire Brigades Union for his anti-EU stances as an "attack on democracy itself".<ref>[https://unherd.com/2019/07/the-betrayal-of-paul-embery/ The betrayal of Paul Embery]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 16:55, February 5, 2024
Kate Hoey (born 1946) is a Northern Irish politician and former member of the Labour Party (until 2019). A Member of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK Parliament, since 2020, Hoey was a Member of Palriament for Vauxhall between 1989 and 2019, and served in the offices Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (1998-1999) and Minister of Sport (1999-2001) in Tony Blair's government.
Hoey has complained that the UK Labour Party, which is openly socialist and committed to globalism, has become "extremely unpatriotic".[1] Kate Hoey was also the only Labour politician to vote against allowing abortion and same-sex 'marriage' in Northern Ireland.
Career
On 29 July 2019, Hoey described the dismissal of Paul Embery, who she described as a "heroic firefighter", from his position in the Fire Brigades Union for his anti-EU stances as an "attack on democracy itself".[2]