Luciana Berger MP (born 13 May 1981) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010. She has been a Liberal Democrat MP since September 2019.
Luciana Berger is best known as a British politician serving as a member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Wavertree since 2010. Berger is also Famous for joining the Liberal Democrat MP since September 2019.
Berger was born as Luciana Clare Berger in London, England on 13 May 1981 and is from Wembley in north-west London. Her father, Howard, initially studied law at university and practiced as a solicitor, and now runs a home furnishings shop. Her mother, Antonia, is an interior designer and children's book writer. She holds English nationality and belongs to Jewish ethnicity. Her religion is Judaism. She has a brother who is a professional musician. Berger was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, a private school in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
Berger subsequently gained a degree in Commerce with Spanish from the University of Birmingham in 2004. She was named the University of Birmingham 2012 Alumna of the Year.[She I spent a year studying at ICADE in Madrid, Spain. Berger then took on on a part-time basis and completed a master's degree (MSc) in Government, Politics, and Policy at Birkbeck, University of London. Berger was a National Executive Committee member of the National Union of Students, Britain's main student representative organization, serving as an elected member for two years during college days.
Berger began her career with the management consultant Accenture in its Government Strategy Unit from 2005 to 2006. She then worked for the National Health Service (NHS) Confederation as Government and Parliamentary Manager, campaigning for the NHS within the government from 2006 to 2007. Berger was the Director of Labour Friends of Israel from 2007 to 2010. She was also a committee member of the London Jewish Forum and stepped down for parliamentary election. She was got elected as MP for Liverpool Wavertree from Labour National Executive Committee's imposition of an all-women shortlist (AWS)in 2010.
She was re-elected in the 2015 and 2017 general elections. As an MP, Berger joined the Shadow Cabinet under Ed Miliband's Labour leadership. She campaigned against dangerous dogs and their owners, as well as food poverty, and raised the issue of loopholes allowing companies to avoid their health and safety responsibilities. She later joined other centrist Labour and Conservative MPs in forming Change UK but left this group in June 2019 to sit as an Independent MP, before joining the Liberal Democrats in September 2019.
Berger's salary for MP for Liverpool Wavertree is £33,000. Her net worth is still under review. Her major source of income is her parliamentary seat. Further information regarding her cars, houses, businesses and other assets' worth is still under speculation.
Berger married Liverpool music manager Alistair Goldsmith at the city's Princes Road Synagogue in June 2015. The couple's first child, a daughter, was born in March 2017 and their second child, a son, in March 2019. Currently, She remains in the directory of the Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who publication. Berger became a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council in June 2019.
Luciana Berger is approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall. Further information regarding her body measurements, shoe and dress sizes are still not known. She has a straight sexual orientation. Berger was shortlisted for the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award in 2015 for her campaign against food poverty, in which she had produced a film to highlight the growing concerns of some of her constituents reliant on food banks.