Christine Oddy
Christine Margaret Oddy (20 September 1955 – 27 July 2014) was an English politician.
Born and brought up in Coventry, she was educated at Stoke Park School, University College London, the Institute of European Studies, and Birkbeck College. She worked as a solicitor, and later as a lecturer, also serving as an officer for NATFHE.[1]
Oddy was the Labour Member of the European Parliament for the Midlands Central constituency from 1989 to 1999. She won the seat from the Conservatives in 1989 and retained it in 1994. She served on several committees including Committee on Women's Rights,[2] and also spent time as the treasurer of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.[1]
However, she only obtained seventh place out of eight on the proposed Labour Party candidate list for the West Midlands constituency for the 1999 European Parliament elections.[3]
She then took the Labour Party to an industrial tribunal about the selection procedures for the list, and was removed altogether from the Labour Party list about a month before the election.[4]
She resigned from the Labour Party, and contested, as an independent, the 1999 European election in the West Midlands constituency (gaining 36,000 votes) and the 2001 UK general election in Coventry North West.[5]
Cancer and death[edit]
She later won damages from University Hospital Coventry in relation to alleged shortcomings with her care and treatment for cervical cancer.[6][7] The cancer metastasized and she died on 27 July 2014.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b BBC-Vacher's Biographical Guide 1996. London: BBC Political Research Unit and Vacher's Publications. 1996. pp. 6–30. ISBN 0951520857.
- ^ "Christine Margaret ODDY". europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Euro-MP threatens legal action". BBC News. BBC. 9 November 1998. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Grice, Andrew (7 May 1999). "Labour sacks MEP after racism claim". The Independent. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Chris Studman for CWN (10 November 2008). "Christine Oddy MEP". Cwn.org.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Former Coventry Euro MP wins £100k over cancer scare". Coventry Telegraph. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Death of Christine Oddy". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 29 July 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Christine Oddy: Former West Midlands MEP dies". BBC News. 29 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- 1955 births
- 2014 deaths
- Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
- Alumni of University College London
- MEPs for England 1989–1994
- MEPs for England 1994–1999
- 20th-century women MEPs for England
- Labour Party (UK) MEPs
- Politicians from Coventry
- Deaths from cervical cancer in the United Kingdom
- Deaths from cancer in England