Joan Ryan | |
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| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration | |
| In office 5 May 2006 – 29 June 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Andy Burnham |
| Succeeded by | Meg Hillier |
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
| In office 13 June 2003 – 5 May 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Brennan |
| Member of Parliament for Enfield North | |
| In office 7 May 2015 – 6 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Nick de Bois |
| Succeeded by | Feryal Clark |
| In office 1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Tim Eggar |
| Succeeded by | Nick de Bois |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joan Marie Ryan 8 September 1955 Warrington, Lancashire, England |
| Political party | Independent (since 2019) |
| Other political affiliations | Change UK (2019) Labour (until 2019) |
| Spouse | Martin Hegarty |
| Alma mater | City of Liverpool College of Higher Education Polytechnic of the South Bank |
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Joan Marie Ryan (born 8 September 1955) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield North from 1997 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2019. She was first elected as a Labour Party MP but later defected to join Change UK.
Ryan studied sociology and worked as a teacher, before becoming a Labour councillor on Barnet London Borough Council in 1990, serving as deputy leader of the council from 1994 to 1998. She was a government whip under Tony Blair from 2002 to 2006, a junior Home Office minister responsible for ID cards from 2006 to 2007, and the Prime Minister's Special Representative to Cyprus from 2007 to 2008, when she was sacked. She lost her seat in the 2010 general election after an expenses scandal and was deputy campaign director of NOtoAV in the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum.
Ryan was re-elected in Enfield North in the 2015 general election and became chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). She was highly critical of party leader Jeremy Corbyn and lost a motion of no confidence put forward by her constituency party in 2018. She left Labour to join The Independent Group, later Change UK, in February 2019. In September, she announced she would stand down at the next general election and was subsequently succeeded by Labour's Feryal Clark.