Joanna Cherry
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Joanna Catherine Cherry is a Scottish lawyer and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South West from 2015 until 2024.
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A political party that allows male members to harass and abuse female members, including elected parliamentarians, without any censure whatsoever is not progressive.
"Why I'm stepping back from frontline politics and ending my column", The National (Glasgow, 25 July 2024)
I have little doubt that this new law will be weaponised by trans rights activists to try to silence, and worse still, criminalise women who do not share their beliefs.
"Ministers under pressure to delay hate crime law start date", The National (16 March 2024)
I have been very upset. I've sat in my office in Westminster on many occasions and cried because of the really awful atmosphere that I had to work in.
Interviewed at Edinburgh's The Stand Comedy Club (10 August 2023), as cited in "Joanna Cherry hopes new SNP leadership means 'intolerance
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About this person
Joanna Catherine Cherry is a Scottish lawyer and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South West from 2015 until 2024. As a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was the party's Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2021. She left the SNP in late 2025 after years as an outspoken critic of the party's leadership and direction.
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