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Rebecca Long-Bailey

レベッカ・ロング＝ベイリー　/　れべっか・ろんぐ＝べいりー

Lawyer from United Kingdom

September 22, 1979 (age 46)　・　Old Trafford, United Kingdom

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My Take

Long-Bailey is a politician I read as principle-first, for better and worse. A Manchester solicitor turned MP for Salford, she rose fast into Corbyn's shadow cabinet handling Treasury and business briefs, which tells me her party trusted her to argue the case under pressure. I value that she stayed rooted in the place that made her rather than reinventing herself for Westminster. Conviction politicians are polarising by nature, and she has been, but I'd take a representative with a clear compass over a weathervane any day. She's worth watching as a barometer of where Labour's left actually stands.

Overview

Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey (née Long; born 22 September 1979) is a British Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford, previously Salford and Eccles, since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn, first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and then as Shadow Business Secretary from 2017 to 2020.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Rebecca Long-Bailey
Name (Japanese): レベッカ・ロング＝ベイリー
Reading: れべっか・ろんぐ＝べいりー
Born: September 22, 1979 (age 46)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Goat
Origin: Old Trafford, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: lawyer / politician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: The Catholic High School
University: Manchester Metropolitan University

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
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4. Personality

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