A senior social worker in
Knowsley, and a
Unison union official, Simon has been a councillor for
Kensington and Fairfield on
Liverpool City Council since
2007. She is a trustee of the
Everyman Playhouse, Liverpool. In 2021, she was shortlisted as one of three candidates to be the
Labour Party's candidate for
Mayor of Liverpool, alongside former Deputy Mayor Ann O'Byrne and
Lord Mayor of Liverpool Anna Rothery, following the announcement by incumbent
Joe Anderson that he would not run for re-election. Simon and the other shortlisted candidates were subsequently told that they would be reinterviewed, sparking claims of a stitch-up by the Labour Party establishment. Afterwards all three were dismissed as candidates and told not to reapply. ==References==