Ruth Cadbury is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 14, 1959 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Cadbury was ousted as Shadow Housing Minister on 29 June 2017 for contravening a whipped vote on an amendment to the Queen’s speech calling for the UK to remain in the European Single Market: whilst the Labour position was to abstain, she voted to support the motion.
In October 2016, she was appointed by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Shadow Housing Minister. Commenting on the appointment she said “As a result of this Government’s policies, owning a home is an unattainable dream for so many youngsters, and for countless people even having somewhere stable and affordable to call home is impossible”. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.
Cadbury, the eldest child of Charles Lloyd Cadbury and Jillian Stafford Ransome, is one of three Quakers elected at the 2015 general election, the others being Labour’s Catherine West and the Conservatives’ Tania Mathias. She was educated at The Mount School, York, Bournville College, and graduated from the University of Salford, BSc in 1981. Having worked from 1983–1989 for Covent Garden Community Association she was a Planning Advisor at Planning Aid for London for the next seven years, then had the same title but in directly applicable policy at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for five years, progressing to a freelance consultant 2006–2014.
Cadbury voted in the unsuccessful no (‘Noes’) lobby in a key House of Commons division of 25 June 2018 as to the National Policy Statement: Airports which laid out government support for a third runway, and was among 28 of the 46 London Labour MPs opposing the runway.
