Background
The daughter of an electrician, Heidi Alexander was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and attended the town"s Churchfields Comprehensive School.
The daughter of an electrician, Heidi Alexander was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and attended the town"s Churchfields Comprehensive School.
University of Durham.
She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Health on 13 September 2015. She is a graduate of Durham University (Grey College, Durham) from where she received a Bachelor in Geography and a Masters in European Urban and Regional Change. She worked as a researcher for Joan Ruddock Member of Parliament for six years from 1999.
She also worked as the Campaigns Manager for Clothes Aid.
Heidi Alexander was elected to Lewisham London Borough Council as a councillor for the Evelyn ward in 2004, and served as Deputy Mayor of Lewisham and Cabinet Member for regeneration from 2006. She was selected as the Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Lewisham East in October 2009 and was elected to Parliament in 2010.
Early in her parliamentary career she served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mary Creagh Member of Parliament and from 2012 serves as an Opposition Whip as well as (from December 2013) a Shadow Minister for London. She is the Chair of the APPG on Choice at the End of Life.
She was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 91st most influential person in the English National Health Service in 2015.
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She was a member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee and supported Andy Burnham for the Labour leadership in 2010.