Jenny Chapman

Jennifer Chapman[1]  (born 25 September 1973[2] ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington since the2010 general election.



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[hide]  *1 Personal life  ==Personal life[ edit] == Chapman was born in Surrey but moved to Darlington at a young age where she attended Hummersknott School and Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College,[2] before studying psychology at Brunel University, and later took an MA in archaeology at Durham University. She has worked as a prison psychologist..[3] ==Politics[ edit] == Chapman worked as senior parliamentary researcher for Darlington Labour MP Alan Milburn. After a career break, she returned to politics at Darlington Borough Council when she was elected as borough councillor for the Cockerton West ward in 2007.[3]
 * 2 Politics
 * 3 References
 * 4 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In November 2009, Chapman was selected as one of four candidates to succeed Milburn as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Darlington on an open shortlist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Labour_shortlist_confirmed_3-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  She was selected to stand for parliament by the local constituency party the following month. Chapman said: "This shows that the people of Darlington want to choose a Darlington person who will put the town first."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She was elected Darlington MP in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,388.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  As a result of her election victory, she decided to stand down as a councillor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Chapman made her maiden speech in Parliament on 7 June 2010, during which she asked for social network services to be regulated to stop pedophiles. She also backed the Building Schools for the Futureprogramme.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  Chapman is also a Vice Chair of the Blairite organisation Progress