Jennie Formby height - How tall is Jennie Formby?

In March 2019, Formby announced that she was to undergo treatment for breast cancer.

In February 2018, Formby announced she was a candidate to become General Secretary of the Labour Party, shortly after the incumbent, Iain McNicol, resigned. Her main rival, Jon Lansman, the chair of Momentum, dropped out of contention on 11 March, making Formby the frontrunner. On 20 March 2018, she was appointed to the role, effective from April 2018. She resigned on 4 May 2020, following the election of Keir Starmer as new Labour leader, saying "now we have a new leadership team it is the right time to step down". She was succeeded by David Evans.

Since late 2011, Formby has been a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party.

Formby and Len McCluskey had a child in 1991. She married Freddie Formby in 2000 and the couple had two children together and adopted a third.

Formby became a Transport and General Workers' Union regional officer in 1988. She represented a Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust nurse in a ground-breaking employment tribunal case in 2004, where the black nurse suffered racial discrimination by being banned from caring for a white baby. Formby became the union's national officer for the food, drink and tobacco sector in 2004. In 2013, she was appointed Unite's political director. In March 2016, Formby moved to the post of regional secretary in south-east England.

Formby became a trade unionist when she began her working life in Salisbury at the bookmakers William Hill in the late 1970s, and became a branch secretary in Unite's predecessor, the Transport and General Workers' Union. She later worked for BOC in Southampton, where she became a union shop steward.

Jennifer "Jennie" Formby (née Sandle; born 12 April 1960) is a British trade unionist and politician who served as General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2018 to 2020. She announced her resignation on 4 May 2020 but remained as General Secretary until her successor David Evans was appointed by the National Executive Committee on 26 May 2020. She was previously political director and south-east England regional secretary for Unite the Union.