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Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
All-women shortlists are a method of affirmative action which has been used by the Labour Party to increase the representation of women in Parliament. As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [ 22 ]
Timeline of female MPs in the House of Commons; All-women shortlists; Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Widow's succession
Dollimore was a councillor for the St Helier ward in the London Borough of Merton between 2021 and 2024. [6] In 2024, after the general election was called, she resigned her council seat in order to stand as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the Hastings and Rye constituency, and was subsequently elected as the MP for the seat.
Zarah Sultana (born 31 October 1993) [2] is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry South since the 2019 general election, representing the Labour Party until her suspension. Sultana received a six-month suspension in July 2024 as one of seven Labour MPs who voted to scrap the two-child benefit cap. [3]
Blair Babes or Blair's Babes was a term sometimes used to refer to the 101 female Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Labour Party elected to the House of Commons in Labour's landslide 1997 general election victory, after images of the new prime minister, Tony Blair, with 96 [1] of them on the steps of Church House in Westminster were widely publicised. [2]
She is the head of the Society of Labour Lawyers. [2]She was a councilor for four years whilst she was studying at law school. She tried to become a Member of Parliament three times at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections in the Erewash constituency, coming second to the Conservative Maggie Throup on each occasion.
Sarah Mei Li Owen [3] (Chinese: 陳美麗; pinyin: Chén Měilì; Wade–Giles: Chen Mei-li; [1] [2] born 11 January 1983) [4] [5] is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 2019. [6] She is the first MP of South East Asian descent and the first female MP of Chinese ...