Claudia Webbe
Template:TOCnestleft Claudia Webbe(born 8 March 1965) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Leicester East since 2019. Born in Leicester, she was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington from 2010 until her resignation in March 2021, having served as its cabinet member for environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 until her election to Parliament.
Ms Webbe, a former policy director for Ken Livingstone when he was mayor of London, is an Islington councillor and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party. A loyal supporter of Mr Corbyn, she is chair of the NEC Disputes Panel. She is the former chair of the independent advisory group to Operation Trident, a Metropolitan Police initiative to tackle gun crime and homicide affecting African-Caribbean communities in London.
Communist Party of Britain connections
Morning Star article
Morning Star "vital resource"
Festive Leicester Fundraiser
December 8 2019.
Claudia Webbe with Leicester Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. Carolyn Jones, Tosh Macdonald also spoke. The event raised 1700 pounds for Morning Star.
Morning Star MEET
Morning Star MEET – Campaigning on anti -racism and on non-racist immigration and nationality policies July 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Morning Star is pleased to have 10 speakers from different organisations who will talk about their views on what is wrong with the Government’s Immigration and Nationality Policies and how we develop anti-racist actions which make a real difference. The event is particularly important given the Government’s continue attacks and the introduction of new immigration laws.
SPEAKERS:
- Lester Holloway – TUC Policy Officer Equality
- Roger McKenzie – Unison Assistant General Secretary and member of TUC Task Force on Race
- Claudia Webbe – MP for Leicester East
- Mary Atkinson – Campaigns Officer Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants
- Jacqueline McKenzie – Human Rights Lawyer
- Bethany Rielly – Morning Star Journalist
- Ron Brown(UK)|Ron Brown]] – Campaigner Hassockfield Detention Centre
- Tony Conway – Communist Party of Britain Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Commission
- Harsev Bains – Indian Workers Association
- Rhetta Moran – Refu [1]