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Paula Barker made her maiden speech on 4 February 2020 becoming one of the first of the new MPs from the 2019 General Election to do so. In it she paid tribute to her predecessor and outlined the rich diversity of the Liverpool, Wavertree Constituency whilst also pointing out to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government that it is local representatives who know what is best for their constituencies.

She became a member of the Justice Select Committee as one of the Labour Party representatives in April 2020.

Her candidacy to be Labour candidate for Liverpool Wavertree was backed by all the major trade unions, including Unite and Unison. She was elected in the 2019 General Election, winning 31,310 votes. This represented 72.2% of the vote.

Paula Barker voted for Jeremy Corbyn in both his leadership campaigns. She was the first major trade union official to publicly back Jeremy Corbyn's original leadership campaign in 2015.

Paula Barker was employed in local government for almost 30 years – ever since she left school. After leaving school she joined Liverpool City Council on a Youth Training Scheme in the Human Resources Department. Soon after, she moved to a permanent position in the Building Maintenance & Repairs Department. On day one of her employment she went and found the union rep and joined NALGO. Within the first year of work she was balloted for industrial action and joined colleagues on the picket line. Ever since she has pledged to always support workers in struggle.

In around 2001 she joined Halton Council where she progressively became more active in her trade union, UNISON. She held a variety of roles in her local branch before becoming Branch Secretary and then for the last 5 years prior to her election to Parliament she was the North West Regional Convenor for UNISON, the most senior lay official for the union. In this role she constantly has championed workers rights for the 200,000 plus members she represented

Paula Barker (born 9 May 1972) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree at the 2019 general election.