Angela Crawley
Angela Crawley is a Scottish National Party politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Lanark and Hamilton East at the 2015 general election. Crawley is the SNP spokesperson for Women and Equalities and a member of the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee.Early life and career
Born in Hamilton, Crawley attended John Ogilvie High School. She studied Politics at the University of Stirling, graduating with a BA degree. She then spent several years living and working in Brighton for the Educational Travel Group. After being elected to Parliament, she received an LLB degree in Law from the University of Glasgow.
She first stood for election to South Lanarkshire Council for the Hamilton South ward and was elected at the 2012 local elections with 1,255 first preferences and taking the second seat in the ward, exceeding the quota.
In 2014, she was appointed as the National Convenor of the SNP's youth wing, Young Scots for Independence; also sitting on the party's National Executive Committee. She is the SNP Spokesperson for Young People and Community Resources.
In 2017, Crawley was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work in Parliament. She very narrowly retained her Hamilton East and Lanark seat at the 2017 snap general election.
Crawley has called for victims of domestic abuse to be exempted from the child maintenance charge, and wrote a letter to Home Secretary Amber Rudd on the issue in 2018.Personal life
In February 2016, she was included in The Independent's group photograph of 28 LGBT MPs and peers.
