Kate Hoey
Kate Hoey (born 1946) is a Northern Irish politician, Euroskeptic and former member of the Labour Party (until 2019). A Member of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK Parliament, since 2020, Hoey was a Member of Palriament for Vauxhall between 1989 and 2019, and served in the offices Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (1998-1999) and Minister of Sport (1999-2001) in Tony Blair's government.
Despite being in the past a member of the International Marxist Group (which was active from 1968-1982), Hoey has taken numerous stances against globalism, political correctness and the homosexual agenda. Hoey has complained that the UK Labour Party, which is openly socialist and committed to globalism, has become "extremely unpatriotic".[1] Kate Hoey was also the only Labour politician to vote against allowing abortion and same-sex 'marriage' in Northern Ireland.
Career
On 29 July 2019, Hoey described the dismissal of Paul Embery, who she described as a "heroic firefighter", from his position in the Fire Brigades Union for his anti-EU stances as an "attack on democracy itself".[2]