Former MEP Anneliese Dodds has been appointed to a top job in the UK Labour Party’s new shadow cabinet.
She has been given the key role of shadow chancellor in the team unveiled by the party’s new leader Keir Starmer.
Dodds served as an MEP for South East England from 2014 to 2017 during which time she sat on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
She was formerly a public policy lecturer at King’s College London and Aston University, before being elected to the European Parliament.
She was elected as MP for Oxford East at the 2017 UK general election and served as a shadow treasury minister under Jeremy Corbyn.
Before becoming an MEP, she worked for many years as an academic and chaired a debt and welfare advice centre.
Speaking to this website on Tuesday, former Labour MEP Claude Moraes said, “She was a recent colleague in the European Parliament, and she showed then a clear intellectual grasp of policy at the highest level with a down to earth ability to communicate.”
“It’s a really great choice as a young female shadow chancellor for Keir Starmer to make and her international knowledge will only help,” Moraes added.