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Anna Mary Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (born 10 May 1955) is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.
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The Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | |
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 Healy in 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2010 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1955 (age 69) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | Jon Cruddas |
| Alma mater | Royal Holloway College |
She graduated with a BA 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. During Harman's 2010 tenure as interim Leader of the Labour Party, she served as her chief of staff.[1] She has also worked for Jack Cunningham, Mo Mowlam, and The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston.
She was created a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours, taking the title Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill, of Primrose Hill in the London Borough of Camden, on 19 July 2010.[2][3][4] She sits on the Lords Committee on HIV and AIDS.
She is the Parliamentary Champion for Allergy UK.[5]
Healy married Jon Cruddas, Labour MP, in 1992.[6][7] They have one child, a son, Emmett.
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