Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn is an English Labour politician.
Background
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 South Norwood. 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 (Member of Parliament) – 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 Street Olave"s Grammar School, and later studied History and Politics at, Oxford.
Career
She was an unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate in both the 2010 and 2015 United Kingdom 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 Union Bank of Switzerland.
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.
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. 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. 2015 general election
2010 general election.
Politics
In the election, Benn came third, 4,276 votes behind the second-placed Liberal Democrats, while Loughton increased his majority to 11,105.
Views
The sitting Member of Parliament, Conservative Tim Loughton, was defending a majority over Labour of 8,183 from the 2005 general election.