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Dawn Petula Butler (born 3 November 1969) is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Brent South. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Brent South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Brent South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
She was born in London to Jamaican immigrant parents. She worked as an officer of the GMB trade union, including time as a national race and equality officer. She was also an advisor to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on employment and social issues. Following the retirement of Paul Boateng, who was to become British High Commissioner to South Africa, she was selected as the Labour candidate in Brent South and won the subsequent election. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is an English politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. ...
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Parliamentary career Butler made her maiden speech on May 24, 2005[1]. In her maiden speech she described her constituency as a “shining example of integration at its best”, highlighted the importance of the Warwick Agreement with the Trade Unions, paid tribute to other sitting and former Black MPs and said she would be a voice for youth. A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected representative in such bodies as the House of Commons or the United States House of Representatives. ...
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The Warwick Agreement is the name of a document agreed in July 2004 to the 2005 General Election between many of Britains main trade unions and the Labour Party, which helped form Labours 2005 election manifesto. ...
She was promoted to Parliamentary Private Secretary to the health minister Jane Kennedy in November 2005, although she subsequently stood down. She was also appointed to the committee for modernisation of the House of Commons shortly after her election. On 24th October 2006 she was appointed Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs, and is an Honorary Vice President of the British Youth Council. A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a junior role given to a United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP). ...
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Following Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister on 27 June 2007, Butler became one of the Labour Party's six Vice Chairs, with particular responsibility for Youth issues. For other people with the same name, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ...
Dawn Butler claims to have most of the credentials of the left; opposing the war in Iraq, opposing up-front university fees, supporting the London Living Wage and a background as a working class trade unionist. This however has not been reflected in her voting patterns which have included failing to support an investigation into the Iraq war and indeed supporting the retention of Trident nuclear weapons.
Boundary Changes Dawn Butler's constituency of Brent South is to be abolished at the next general election. Its territory will be mostly divided between two new constituencies: Brent Central and Brent North. Butler will stand against Sarah Teather, the current Liberal Democrat MP for Brent East. Brent South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Under the provisions of the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, the next United Kingdom general election must be held on or before 3 June 2010. ...
Brent Central will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Creation 1974 MP Barry Gardiner Party Labour Type House of Commons County Greater London EP constituency London Brent North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Sarah Teather Sarah Louise Teather (born 1 June 1974, London) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of Parliament for Brent East, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Education, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay. ...
Liberal democracy is a form of representative democracy where elected representatives that hold the decision power are moderated by a constitution that emphasizes protecting individual liberties and the rights of minorities in society, such as freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of religion, the right to private property and privacy...
The 2006 local elections in Brent showed Labour ahead in the Brent Central wards. However, a by election in Dudden Hill ward in the centre of Brent Central produced a rise in the Liberal Democrat majority, so this is expected to be a close contest. Liberal democracy is a form of representative democracy where elected representatives that hold the decision power are moderated by a constitution that emphasizes protecting individual liberties and the rights of minorities in society, such as freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of religion, the right to private property and privacy...
Other Points of Interest - Dawn Butler comes from a large family with one sister and four brothers. She lives with her parents in the East End. She does however claim her second home allowance at tax payers expense despite living within easy commuting distance of Parliament.
- She helps out in her parents' West Indian and European bakery and enjoys salsa.
- On her election to Parliament, Dawn Butler became only the third black woman to have been elected to the House of Commons. Diane Abbott was the first, in 1987, with Oona King (who is of mixed race) following in 1997.
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Diane Julie Abbott (born September 27, 1953 in Paddington, London) is a British Labour Party Member of Parliament, representing the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency. ...
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