Background
Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher. She was educated at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry and won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford where she read modern languages. She then attended the London School of Economics and gained an MSc in European Studies. She worked in Brussels for four years, first as a stagiaire at the European Parliament and then for the European Youth Forum. She taught entrepreneurship at the Cranfield University School of Management from 1997 until her election to Westminster, and spent seven years as a trustee with Rathbone, a national charity.
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