What is Bridget Phillipson?
{{Infobox officeholder | image = Official portrait of Bridget Phillipson MP crop 2.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2020 | honorific-prefix = | name = Bridget Phillipson | honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] | office1 = [[Shadow Secretary of State for Education]] | leader1 = [[Keir Starmer]] | term_start1 = 29 November 2021 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = [[Kate Green]] | successor1 = | office2 = [[Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury]] | term_start2 = 6 April 2020 | term_end2 = 29 November 2021 | leader2 = Keir Starmer | predecessor2 = [[Peter Dowd]] | successor2 = [[Pat McFadden]] | office3 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br/> for [[Houghton and Sunderland South (UK Parliament constituency)|Houghton and Sunderland South]] | majority3 = 3,115 (7.8%) | predecessor3 = ''Constituency established'' | successor3 = | term_start3 = 6 May 2010 | term_end3 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|12|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Gateshead]], [[Tyne and Wear]], England | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] | relations = | children = 2 | residence = | alma_mater = [[Hertford College, Oxford]] | website = {{url|https://www.bridgetphillipson.com/}} }} '''Bridget Maeve Phillipson''' (born 19 December 1983) is a [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]] politician who has been the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom and Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010. She was appointed [[Shadow cabinet|Shadow]] [[Secretary of State for Education]] in the Shadow Cabinet of [[Keir Starmer]] in 2021. Before this, she served as Shadow [[Chief Secretary to