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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Valerie Shawcross</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg/220px-Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg/330px-Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Valerie_Shawcross_CBE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="362" data-file-height="427" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Shawcross in 2020</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Mayor_of_London_for_Transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Mayor of London for Transport">Deputy Mayor of London for Transport</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 May 2016 – 21 May 2018</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_London" title="Mayor of London">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Isabel_Dedring" title="Isabel Dedring">Isabel Dedring</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Heidi_Alexander" title="Heidi Alexander">Heidi Alexander</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_London_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the London Assembly">Member of the London Assembly</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_and_Southwark_(London_Assembly_constituency)" title="Lambeth and Southwark (London Assembly constituency)">Lambeth and Southwark</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 May 2000 – 5 May 2016</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Authority_Act_1999" title="Greater London Authority Act 1999">Constituency established</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Florence_Eshalomi" title="Florence Eshalomi">Florence Eshalomi</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Middleton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Middleton, Greater Manchester">Middleton, Lancashire</a>, UK</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Michael Anteney</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">University of Liverpool</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Arts_London" title="University of the Arts London">London Institute</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">MA</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Valerie Shawcross</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span></span> is a British politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Mayor_of_London_for_Transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Mayor of London for Transport">Deputy Mayor of London for Transport</a> from 2016 to 2018. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-operative</a> parties, she was <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_London_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the London Assembly">Member of the London Assembly</a> for <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_and_Southwark_(London_Assembly_constituency)" title="Lambeth and Southwark (London Assembly constituency)">Lambeth and Southwark</a> from 2000 to 2016. </p><p>Shawcross was a Member of <a href="/wiki/Croydon_London_Borough_Council" title="Croydon London Borough Council">Croydon London Borough Council</a> from 1994 to 2000, and served as Leader of the Council from 1997 to 2000. She unsuccessfully stood, as the Labour candidate, to become <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Croydon" title="Mayor of Croydon">Mayor of Croydon</a> in <a href="/wiki/2022_Croydon_London_Borough_Council_election" title="2022 Croydon London Borough Council election">2022</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born on Langley Council Estate, <a href="/wiki/Middleton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Middleton, Greater Manchester">Middleton</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shawcross attended local state schools before gaining a 2:1 degree in Political Theory and Institutions from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">University of Liverpool</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She joined the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> aged 19.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elected as the Deputy President of the Guild of Undergraduates in 1980, she moved to London in 1981 to take up a post at the UK Council for Students Affairs - UKCOSA (Charity).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She gained an MA in Human Rights and Education at the London Institute in 1986. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Croydon_Council">Croydon Council</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Croydon Council"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She served as a councillor for <a href="/wiki/New_Addington" title="New Addington">New Addington</a> in <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Croydon" title="London Borough of Croydon">Croydon</a> from 1994 to 2000, serving as chair of education and later as leader of <a href="/wiki/Croydon_London_Borough_Council" title="Croydon London Borough Council">Croydon London Borough Council</a> from 1997 to 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="London_Assembly_and_Deputy_Mayoralty">London Assembly and Deputy Mayoralty</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: London Assembly and Deputy Mayoralty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was first elected to the <a href="/wiki/London_Assembly" title="London Assembly">London Assembly</a> in 2000, and retained her seat in subsequent elections. In 2000, the mayor of London <a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a> appointed her as the chair of the <a href="/wiki/London_Fire_and_Emergency_Planning_Authority" title="London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority">London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority</a> (LFEPA).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She accepted the appointment on the condition that she would "consider herself bound by Labour's policies and not the mayor's", with Livingstone at the time being an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent politician</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his memoir, Livingstone wrote that she "spent the next eight years transforming the London Fire Brigade, leading to a dramatic reduction in loss of life from fires, cutting waste and, later, organising emergency response procedures after 9/11".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, she served as the Labour group's spokesperson for transport and as chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee. She also served on the Assembly Budget Scrutiny Committee, and chaired the audit committee immediately following her election.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 December 2010, it was announced that Shawcross would be Livingstone's running-mate in the <a href="/wiki/2012_London_mayoral_election" title="2012 London mayoral election">2012 London mayoral election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shawcross unsuccessfully sought selection as the Labour candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2012_Croydon_North_by-election" title="2012 Croydon North by-election">2012 Croydon North by-election</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Steve_Reed_(politician)" title="Steve Reed (politician)">Steve Reed</a> becoming the candidate and winning the seat.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, she announced that she would not seek re-election to the London Assembly at the 2016 elections. </p><p>In May 2016, <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a> appointed her as deputy mayor of London for transport and deputy chair of Transport for London.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2018, she announced her retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-DMRetire_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMRetire-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retirement_and_Croydon_Mayoralty">Retirement and Croydon Mayoralty</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Retirement and Croydon Mayoralty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following her retirement from full-time public life in 2018, she worked as chair of the Heathrow Area Transport Forum,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and assumed roles in the Thames Festival Trust and Crystal Palace Park Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2021, Shawcross announced her intention to stand to be the first directly elected <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Croydon" title="Mayor of Croydon">Mayor of Croydon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was selected as Croydon Labour's 2022 mayoral candidate in December 2021. Shawcross was narrowly defeated by Conservative <a href="/wiki/Jason_Perry_(politician)" title="Jason Perry (politician)">Jason Perry</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2022_Croydon_London_Borough_Council_election" title="2022 Croydon London Borough Council election">May 2022 Croydon Mayoral election</a>, who won with a majority of less than 600 votes in the second round.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her campaign was damaged by dissatisfaction with the Labour-held Council, which had led the borough into bankruptcy.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Shawcross&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shawcross was appointed <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (CBE) in the <a href="/wiki/2002_Birthday_Honours" title="2002 Birthday Honours">2002 Birthday Honours</a> for her services to local government.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was made an Honorary Alderwoman of the London Borough of Croydon in 2019, and is a Freewoman of the City of London.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has been recognised for her work in Transport in London by the business group ‘London First’,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the ‘London Cycling Campaign',<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the disability campaign group ‘Transport for All’.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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