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Marie Tidball is a British Labour politician and disability rights campaigner, who has been the Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge since 2024.
Early life
She was born with a congenital disability which affects all four limbs, with foreshortened arms and legs and a digit on each underdeveloped hand. As a child she missed three years of school because of the surgery needed.
She grew up in Penistone and Stocksbridge, and attended Penistone Grammar School. Her mother was a nursery head and her father was a teacher and Labour county councillor, who helped found Barnsley College.
Education and early career
Tidball studied Law at Wadham College, Oxford, followed by a journalism internship at Channel 4 News. She returned to Oxford to do a Master of Science (MSc) degree in criminology and criminal justice. Her MSc dissertation was titled Mad, Bad or Disabled?. She then worked as policy and legal officer for Autism West Midlands in Birmingham.
She was a founding director and coordinator of the Oxford University disability law and policy project. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 2017: her doctoral thesis was titled "The governance of adult defendants with autism through English criminal justice policy and criminal court practice" and her doctoral supervisor was Carolyn Hoyle.
Oxford councillor
Tidball has been called one of the country's leading disability rights campaigners by the Barnsley Chronicle. From 2016–2022 she was a Labour Councillor for Oxford City Council. In the 2017 election she stood for parliament in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, finishing third.
Parliamentary career
In June 2022, Tidball was selected to stand as the Labour candidate for the 2024 election, with the backing of multiple trade unions, as well as Dan Jarvis, Stephanie Peacock and David Blunkett. In July 2024, she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penistone and Stocksbridge.
In September 2024, Tidball unsuccessfully stood for election as Chair of the Education Select Committee.
Personal life
She has a daughter.
Selected works
Tidball, Marie (2024). Disabling criminal justice: the governance of autistic adult defendants in the English criminal justice system. Oxford; New York: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509956968.
References
External links
Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
Voting record at Public Whip
Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
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- Marie Tidball
- Tidball
- Miriam Cates
- Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
- Penistone Grammar School
- Alistair Carns
- Nesil Caliskan
- David Pinto-Duschinsky
- Liam Conlon
- Jen Craft
