Florence Eshalomi

Florence Eshalomi, a lifelong Brixton resident and Labour campaigner, won the Vauxhall seat in December 2019. Beginning her political career as a local councillor on Lambeth Council (from 2006 to 2018) and serving as a GLA Assembly Member from 2016, Eshalomi is a Labour moderate and member of the Cooperative party. She has a background in public affairs, working as a public affairs account manager for PR agency Four Communications and also as public affairs manager for the UK’s leading race equality thinktank, the Runnymede Trust. She has been active on issues surrounding transport and race, as well as campaigning against gang crime and the closure of Kennington Police Station. In her maiden speech in the Commons, she pledged to advocate for increased funding for the NHS and Police, as well as greater protection for young women facing sexual exploitation. Eshalomi has spoken out about her experiences of racism since entering parliament, citing frequent confusions of herself with black female colleagues in Westminster, including by BBC Parliament. Based in a strongly-remain constituency, Eshalomi sits on the Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union and ceased to serve as an opposition whip when Labout backed Johnson’s Brexit deal.