Maria Eagle

The Right Honourable Maria Eagle MP
Official portrait, 2020
Minister of State for Justice and Equalities[a]
In office 2 July 2007 – 6 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Gerry Sutcliffe
Succeeded by	Crispin Blunt
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children in Northern Ireland
In office 6 May 2006 – 28 June 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Jeff Rooker
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children
In office 17 June 2005 – 6 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Margaret Hodge
Succeeded by	Beverley Hughes
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People
In office 11 June 2001 – 17 June 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Margaret Hodge
Succeeded by	Anne McGuire
Member of Parliament for Garston and Halewood Liverpool Garston (1997–2010)
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Eddie Loyden
Majority	31,624 (59.3%)
Shadow portfolios Shadow Secretary of State 2016 Culture, Media and Sport 2015–2016 Defence 2013–2015 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2010–2013 Transport Shadow Minister 2023–present Defence Procurement 2010 Solicitor General
Personal details
Born	(1961-02-17) 17 February 1961 (age 63) Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Political party	Labour
Relatives	Angela Eagle (sister)
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford University of Law

Maria Eagle (born 17 February 1961) is a British politician who served in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She later served in the Shadow cabinets of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Garston and Halewood, previously Liverpool Garston, since 1997.

The twin sister of Angela Eagle, also a Labour MP, Eagle was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire to a working-class family and raised in Merseyside. She studied Philosophy, politics and economics at Pembroke College, Oxford and Law at the College of Law, London. After graduating with her law degree, she worked as an articled clerk and solicitor in both London and Liverpool. After unsuccessfully contesting Crosby in 1992, she was elected for the Liverpool Garston constituency at the 1997 general election.

Under Tony Blair, Eagle was a junior minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education and Skills and Northern Ireland Office. She was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice and Government Equalities Office under Gordon Brown. Following the 2010 general election, Eagle became Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales. She served in the Shadow cabinet as Shadow Transport Secretary, Shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary, Shadow Defence Secretary and finally Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary. She resigned from the Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet in June 2016.

She was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. She returned to the frontbench as Shadow Minister for Procurement in 2023.

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