Education
She graduated with a Bachelor in Modern History & Politics from Royal Holloway College in 1976 and has worked for the Labour Party since 1978.
politician Member of the House of Lords
She graduated with a Bachelor in Modern History & Politics from Royal Holloway College in 1976 and has worked for the Labour Party since 1978.
She was special adviser to Harriet Harman when Leader of the Commons and John Prescott as Deputy Prime Minister. She worked in the Cabinet Office under Tony Blair"s premiership and was then Senior Parliamentary Press Officer for the Labour Party for six years. She has also worked for Jack Cunningham, Mo Mowlam, and Gus Macdonald.
She was created a life peer taking the title Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill, of Primrose Hill in the London Borough of Camden, on 19 July 2010.
She sits on the Lords Committee on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Healy married Jon Cruddas, Labour Member of Parliament, in 1992. They have one son.