Rebecca Long-Bailey

Rebecca Long-Bailey MP
Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
In office 6 April 2020 – 25 June 2020
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Angela Rayner
Succeeded by	Kate Green
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
In office 9 February 2017 – 6 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Clive Lewis
Succeeded by	Ed Miliband
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 27 June 2016 – 9 February 2017
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Seema Malhotra
Succeeded by	Peter Dowd
Shadow Minister for the Treasury
In office 18 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Member of Parliament for Salford Salford and Eccles (2015–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Hazel Blears
Majority	15,101 (38.0%)
Personal details
Born	Rebecca Roseanne Long (1979-09-22) 22 September 1979 (age 45) Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Labour Party (2014–2024; suspended and whip withdrawn) Socialist Campaign Group
Spouse	Stephen Bailey
Children	1
Alma mater	Manchester Metropolitan University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Solicitor
Website	www.rebeccalongbailey.com

Rebecca Roseanne Long-Bailey (née Long; born 22 September 1979)^[1] is a British independent, formerly Labour Party politician and solicitor who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford, previously Salford and Eccles, since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn, first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2016 to 2017 and then as Shadow Business Secretary from 2017 to 2020. Under Keir Starmer, she served as Shadow Education Secretary for only two months in 2020.

Long-Bailey was elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. After Jeremy Corbyn was elected in the 2015 Labour leadership election, Long-Bailey was appointed as a Junior Treasury Minister and was nominated to sit on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.

Long-Bailey was a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, finishing second to Keir Starmer.

In July 2024, Long-Bailey was suspended for a term of six months along with six other Labour MPs from the Labour Left for voting in favour of a proposed Scottish National Party amendment to the king's speech at the 2024 State Opening of Parliament in favour of removing the two-child benefit cap.