Baroness Kate Hoey
non-aligned peer, House of Lords; former Labour MP; former sports minister; former unpaid commissioner for sport, London Mayor's office; Leave campaigner

Born in Northern Ireland, Kate qualified there as a physical education teacher before taking an economics degree in London. She worked in further education before becoming educational adviser to Arsenal Football Club. Kate was elected as a Labour MP for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019, and she was a Home Office minister and the first female sports minister during the Blair government.

Independent minded, Kate chaired the Countryside Alliance from 2005 to 2010. She joined the Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s team as his unpaid commissioner for sport with a particular emphasis on grassroots sport. She campaigned for the UK to Leave the European Union, and left the Labour Party when Keir Starmer reneged on the policy over a further referendum. Kate entered the House of Lords in 2020 as Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin as a non-aligned peer. She has opposed both the NI Protocol and the Windsor Framework.

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