Gloria De Piero
British politician (born 1972)
Gloria De Piero (born 21 December 1972) is a British broadcaster and former Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire from 2010 to 2019.
De Piero began her television career at the BBC and ITV, and was political editor of GMTV from 2003 to 2010. De Piero returned to broadcasting in 2020, and has been a presenter on GB News since 2021.
De Piero was appointed to the opposition front bench in 2010, and served in the shadow cabinets of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn between 2013 and 2016.
Early life
Gloria De Piero was born on 21 December 1972 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England to Giorgio and Maddalena De Piero. Her parents are Italian immigrants who moved to the United Kingdom to work in Bradford's textile mills. Her father had a mental health crisis when she was around the age of nine. This resulted in him requiring admissions to psychiatric hospitals throughout her childhood. His mental health meant that he could not continue to work, and De Piero's mother gave up her job to look after him, and the family lived on benefits.
De Piero attended Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College where she obtained five GCSEs, and Bradford College where she gained two D A-levels.
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