Kate Hoey
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]