Early Life
De Piero was born in Bradford, Yorkshire of Italian descent. She lived in modest surroundings, a terraced house, in the white working class area of south-west Bradford known as Wibsey, a traditional Labour-voting area. She attended Marshfields Primary School in Little Horton then Priestman Middle School on Thornton Lane in Little Horton until 1986 (and which subsequently closed in 2000).
She attended the Roman Catholic Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College (which school closed in 2010, having been formed in 1981 out of Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School and Margaret Clitherow Grammar School) on Westgate Hill Street (A650). She completed her A levels at Bradford and Ilkley College, and joined the Labour Party at 18. De Piero then went to the University of Central England (since 2007 Birmingham City University), where she served an annual term as President of the Student Union, before graduating as a BA in Social Science from the University of Westminster in 1996. She was involved in the Labour Student campaign of 1996-97 at the national base. She later obtained the degree of MSc in Social and Political Theory from Birkbeck, University of London in 2001.
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