Majority 1,777 Name Emily Benn Aunts Melissa Benn | Nationality British Role Politician Siblings Daniel Benn | |
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Full Name Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn Occupation Sales team at investment bank Parents Nita Clarke Bowes, Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate Similar People | ||
Grandparents Tony Benn, Caroline Benn | ||
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Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn (born 4 October 1989) is an English Labour politician. She is the eldest child and only daughter of Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate and Nita Clarke (née Bowes), and the granddaughter of the late Labour MP Tony Benn. She was an unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate in both the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections. At the 2014 local elections, Benn was elected to the West Thornton ward of Croydon Borough Council. She works on the "multi-asset sales team" at investment bank UBS.
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- Emily Benn Responds to Labours Anti Semitism Row Part 2 Good Morning Britain
- Early and family life
- Education
- Candidacy for Parliament
- Local councillor
- Andrew Fisher complaint
- References
Emily Benn Responds to Labour's Anti-Semitism Row - Part 2 | Good Morning Britain
Early and family life
Benn was born in 1989 in Croydon, England, at the time that the Labour Party Conference of that year was being held. Benn is a quarter-Indian on her mother's side, and lives in New York City. Benn claims that her first political experience was campaigning for her grandfather in his Chesterfield constituency in the 1992 general election at age two, and she joined the Labour Party at age 14.
Four generations of her family have served as British Members of Parliament (MP) – uncle Hilary Benn, grandfather Tony Benn, great-grandfather William Wedgwood Benn and great-great-grandfathers, John Williams Benn and Daniel Holmes.
Education
Benn attended Wallington High School for Girls where she achieved 11 A* grades in her GCSEs. She then studied music, history and Latin for A level at St Olave's Grammar School, and later studied History and Politics at New College, Oxford.
Candidacy for Parliament
On 12 September 2007, three weeks before her 18th birthday, Benn was selected as the Labour candidate for the West Sussex constituency of East Worthing and Shoreham at the 2010 general election.
The sitting MP, Conservative Tim Loughton, was defending a majority over Labour of 8,183 from the 2005 general election. In the election, Benn came third, 4,276 votes behind the second-placed Liberal Democrats, while Loughton increased his majority to 11,105.
On 16 July 2014, Benn was selected as the Labour candidate for Croydon South for the 2015 General Election. She increased the Labour vote share by 4.8%, but was defeated by Conservative candidate Chris Philp.
Local councillor
In July 2013, Benn was selected as one of three Labour candidates for the ward of West Thornton on Croydon Borough Council in the 2014 local council elections. In May 2014, she was elected top of the ballot with a majority of 1,777. She resigned as a councillor in 2016.
Andrew Fisher complaint
In the Autumn of 2015, Benn formally complained about Andrew Fisher, Jeremy Corbyn's head of policy, for supporting the Class War party at the general election earlier that year; Fisher was suspended. The Guardian also stated that 'Fisher Supporters' had pointed out that a page titled 'Emily Benn for Croydon South' on Facebook published a re-tweet suggesting Labour members who were 'disappointed' with Corbyn's 'male dominated' leadership join the Women's Equality Party.