Margaret Mullane MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament for Dagenham and Rainham
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 July 2024
Preceded by	Jon Cruddas
Majority	7,173 (18.4%)
Member of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council for Village
In office 6 May 2010 – 28 November 2024
Personal details
Party	Labour
Website	margaretmullane.co.uk

Margaret Mullane is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dagenham and Rainham since 2024.^[1] She succeeded Jon Cruddas who decided not to run for re-election in 2022,^[2] whom she worked for as office manager.^[3] She has also served as a councillor for the Village ward in the Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council since 2010^[4] and previously served as Cabinet Member for Enforcement and Community Safety.^[5]

Early life

Margaret Mullane was raised in council houses in Dagenham, attending St Peter's School, and has described herself as working class.^[6] She studied Humanities and Politics at Birkbeck, University of London.^[7]

Political career

Mullane unsuccessfully stood as a Labour Party candidate in the Mawneys ward of Havering at the 2002 local election and in the Eastbrook ward of Barking and Dagenham at the 2006 election.^[8][9]

She was first elected to the Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council at the 2010 election. She successfully campaigned to protect residents of Wennington from paying the Community Infrastructure Levy on rebuilding homes lost in a 2022 wildfire.^[10] In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, she won the Dagenham and Rainham constituency with a slightly reduced share of the vote.^[1] Mullane has served as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee since October 2024.^[11]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Margaret Mullane.

• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou