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Carolyn Labey

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Carolyn Labey
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Carolyn Fiona Labey is a Jersey politician who was first sworn in as a Deputy for Grouville on 12 December 2002. She was re-elected as Deputy in 2005, 2008 and 2011.[3]

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She is Assistant Minister for Economic Development and Assistant Minister for Planning and Environment.[4][5]

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Early and personal life

She was born into a farming family.[6] Her father died when she was 11.[6] She was educated in Jersey and in Paris, France.

Labey owns three fields in Jersey: fields G403C, G403D and G432A.[6]

Political career

Labey was first elected as a Deputy in the parish of Grouville, in the Jersey general election of 2002 with 774 votes. She stood against one other candidate, Patricia Anne Picot, who achieved 397 votes.[7]

She was previously Minister for International Development and Chair of the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission and of the Executive Committee of the Jersey Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.[8] During her time as Minister for International Development, she worked on a project linking Jersey and Rwanda.[8] The project raised Jersey cows in Rwanda to produce milk and facilitated the Girinka programme.[8] For the 2022 Jersey general election, the post of senator was discontinued and voting boundaries changed Grouville into a parish.[9] This changed her from being the sole Deputy of Grouville to three representatives split between areas, with the East District covering Grouville and St. Martin.[9]

She supported Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying Ukrainian people had demonstrated resilience and said Jersey would support the people of Ukraine.[10] She also visited the east of Poland afterwards and met with refugees in the area.[11]

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References

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