Maureen Burke
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Maureen Burke MP | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Anne McLaughlin |
| Majority | 4,637 (13.6%) |
| Glasgow City Council Councillor for North East | |
| In office 3 May 2012 – 2 September 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Labour |
| Alma mater | John Wheatley College |
Maureen Burke (born September 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East since 2024.[1]
She was a Glasgow City Councillor, until her resignation on 2 September 2024.[2]
Since the 2012 Glasgow City Council election, she represented the North East ward on Glasgow City Council as a Councillor,[3] and was the chair of the Glasgow City Council Operational Performance and Delivery Scrutiny Committee, until her resignation in September 2024.[4]
She was a remunerated director of Glasgow East Women's Aid [5] and, according to Companies house,[6] resigned from position immediately after bullying claims were made towards board members in August 2023.[7]
At the 2024 general election, she was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East with a majority of 4,637 votes over the SNP incumbent, Anne McLaughlin.[8]
In the 2025 Labour deputy leadership election she nominated Lucy Powell MP.[9]
Pre-Political Career
Burke worked as a factory operative at A. & J. Gelfer Ltd, a tie manufacturing factory in Bridgeton, Glasgow from the age of 15,[10] before moving into administrative support for the company, which went into liquidation in December 2000.[11] She then studied an IT course at John Wheatley College, aged 40 before working as a parliamentary assistant for former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Baillieston and MP for Glasgow East, Margaret Curran until the 2015 general election.
Personal life
Burke lives in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow with her husband. She has one daughter and two granddaughters.
Parliamentary career
One of her first votes in parliament, on 23 July 2024, was a vote against ending the Two-Child Limit to benefit payments.[12]
Burke is the Chair of the new All Party Parliamentary Group on Grief Support and the Impact of Death on Society.[13]
