Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called for Labour MP Anneliese Dodds to be handed a big role by the next party leader.

In his pre-Budget speech, hosted this morning, McDonnell was introduced by Dodds, who has been Labour MP for Oxford East since 2017.

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McDonnell used his opening remarks to pay tribute to Dodds, saying he hopes, “she gets a significant role in the new administration.”

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to deliver his first Budget on Wednesday, which correspondingly will be McDonnell’s final Budget as Shadow Chancellor – with a new Labour leadership team set to be appointed next month.

However, this has not stopped McDonnell trying to influence the future direction of the party.

Dodds herself has an impressive CV. She graduated with a first-class honours degree in PPE from Oxford, before reading for a master’s degree from Edinburgh University and a PhD from LSE.

Anneliese Dodds MP

Dodds, who is currently Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, lectured at King’s College London and Aston University, before being elected as a Labour MEP for the South East in 2014.

Certainly someone the next Labour leader would be daft not to consider.

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