Tracy grew up in a council flat in Batley with her mum, dad and sister. Tracy – like so many people in our area – started work as soon as she was old enough to do so, working in her local hairdressers.
Growing up in Batley in the 1970s, Tracy watched headline acts at the Batley Variety Club which is where she first got stars in her eyes. Seeing the likes of Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey in her small market town set Tracy on a path in the entertainment industry.
For three decades she worked in the entertainment industry, and might be familiar to voters as Tricia Armstrong, a Coronation Street character Tracy played from 1994 – 1997. She also appeared in Emmerdale and wrote for both Hollyoaks and Shameless.
Tracy has always been politically active, marching on Greenham Common, organising donations during the miners strike and protesting against the Iraq War, but she only stood for office after her friend Jo Cox was tragically murdered in Batley in 2016.
Tracy’s priorities as Mayor have been protecting and creating good, well paid jobs – including in the growing cultural industries, alongside the green economy; safer streets and community policing; expanding clean and green transport, including a mass transit system for the region.
