Christine McCafferty (née Livesley; born 14 October 1945) is a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Calder Valley from 1997 to 2010 when she retired.
[2][4] She was elected in the 1997 Labour landslide, replacing the Conservative Sir Donald Thompson who had held the seat since 1979.
The initiative was ultimately defeated when, on 7 October 2010, a narrow majority of Members adopted a number of amendments that turned it into its opposite: it now re-affirms the free exercise of conscientious objection, instead of restricting it.
[8] McCafferty was one of the Labour rebel MPs that voted against British involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[9] Later that year she voted against the hospital reform bill that introduced NHS foundation trusts.