
Rachael Maskell
Rachael Maskell MP has served as Member of Parliament for York Central since 2015. She was Shadow Environment Secretary from 2016 to 2017 and Shadow Employment Secretary in 2020
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Speaking up for the vulnerable cost me the Labour Party whip, but I don't regret it
Rachael Maskell MP was suspended from the Labour Party after opposing the Welfare Reform Bill, which she said would introduce “Dickensian cuts belonging to a different era and a different party”. She does not regret standing up for poor and the marginalised, she says. It’s what Jesus would do