Lester Holloway

Career

Lester Holloway began his media career as a reporter for Eastern Eye, a weekly newspaper that was published by Ethnic Media Group, in 1999. He later became News Editor at The Voice, and then Editor at the news website Black Information Link, published by The 1990 Trust. He was New Media Manager at the campaign group Operation Black Vote between June 2009 and March 2010.

Prior to journalism, Holloway was a local authority councillor (Labour Party) in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, between 1994 and 1998, representing the College Park and Old Oak Ward.

Achievements

• In 1987, he won the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4/Young Men’s Christian Association Best of British Youth Award for his campaign to save an area of natural importance called "Scrubs Wood" in Wormwood Scrubs.

Politics

He left the Labour Party in 2000 after nine years, and is now a member of the Liberal Democrats. He currently lives in Sutton, Surrey, where he served as an elected councillor (Liberal Democrats) from 2010 to 2014. Lester was until Autumn 2014 the Secretary to the Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats, a grouping that exists to develop the education, participation and representation of ethnic minorities within the party.