My mother, Julie Davies, who has died aged 67 of throat cancer complicated by Covid-19, was a teacher, trade unionist and Labour politician.
In 1997 she was elected as branch secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in Haringey, a year later joining the union’s national executive committee, and the General Teaching Council in 2010. She was released from her responsibilities as an English teacher at Northumberland Park community school in north London in 2000 so that she could work full time on behalf of NUT members – and campaigned fiercely against the government’s academisation agenda.
