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// BARONESS YOUNG OF //BIM AFOLAMI // KATE OSAMOR \\ DIANE ABBOTT \\ CHI ONWURAH \\ LORD BOATENG
HORNSEY CONSERVATIVE LABOUR

Baroness Lola Young worked as a (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours Shadow Secretary of State for The UK’s first black woman MP. Di- Chi Onwurah is a British Labour Paul Boateng is a British Labour
professional actress until 1984, best for services to British Black History. International Development. ane Abbott is also the longest serving Party Politician who was elected at the party politician. He has been an MP
known for her role in Metal Mickey. She was head of culture at the Greater black MP in the House of Commons. 2010 general election as the Member Brent South (1997-2005), becoming the
She had previously been a residential London Authority, following which she In the 2015 General Election, Kate Diane is a member of the Labour party; of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne UK’s first mixed-race Cabinet Minister
social worker, she became co-director was created a life peer in 2004 taking Osamor stood as the Labour Party she has held various positions in the Central, succeeding the previous in May 2002, when he was appointed
and training and development manag- the title Baroness Young of Hornsey candidate for Edmonton, she obtained cabinet. Born in Paddington to a work- Labour MP. She is Newcastle’s first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He
er at the Haringey Arts Council, where of Hornsey in the London Borough of 25,388 votes, increasing Labour’s ma- ing-class British Jamaican family, black MP. She is currently Shadow also served as the British High Com-
she remained until 1989. Haringey. jority. Abbott studied History at Cambridge Minister for Industrial Strategy, missioner for South Africa and became
Lola Young was lecturer in media stud- Osamor has served as the chair for University. She worked in the civil ser- Science and Innovation, having been a member of the House of Lords on 1
ies at the Polytechnic of West London. Bim Afolami was educated at the All Party Parliamentary Group for vice and as a reporter before becom- appointed to the role in October 2016. July 2010. Boateng was born in Lon-
In the following she was lecturer, sen- Bishopsgate School, Eton College and Nigeria for approx. 4 years. She was ing a press officer. Joining Labour, she Onwurah’s mother was from Newcas- don from a mixed Ghanaian and Scot-
ior lecturer, principal lecturer, Profes- University College, Oxford where he appointed Shadow Secretary of State was elected to Westminster City Coun- tle. Onwurah graduated from Imperial tish family. His education was carried
sor of cultural studies and in the end read Modern History. Before he be- for International Development in 2016. cil in 1982 and then as an MP in 1987. College London in 1987. She worked in out in Ghana to finally graduate at the
Emeritus professor at the Middlesex came an MP, he worked as a corpo- On 2 October 2019, Abbott became the hardware and software development, University of Bristol.
University. In 1995 she published Fear rate lawyer. Member of Parliament In 2019, she advocated the abolition of first minority ethnic parliamentarian to product management, market devel-
of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality for Hitchin and Harpenden, He has de- the monarchy when Queen Elizabeth II represent the labour party when she opment and strategy for a variety of Boateng is currently the British High
in Cinema. Young was appointed an Of- scribed Winston Churchill as his ‘big- approved Prime Minister Boris John- stood in for Jeremy Corbyn in mainly private sector companies in a Commissioner to South Africa.
ficer of the Order of the British Empire gest hero. son’s plan to suspend Parliament. remembrance of Black History month. number of different countries.

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