Bambos Charalambous
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Bambos Charalambous MP |
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Official Parliamentary portrait, June 2017
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Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate |
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Assumed office 9 June 2017 |
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| Preceded by | David Burrowes |
| Majority | 4,355 (9.0%) |
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2 December 1967 London |
| Political party | Labour |
Bambos Charalambous (born 2 December 1967) is a British politician. He was elected as the Labour Party MP for Enfield Southgate in 2017. He is the second MP with Cypriot ancestry, and the first whose parents both have a Cypriot background.
Charalambous was born in London and raised in Bowes Park, Enfield and has lived there all his life. His parents come from Kalo Chorio and Fasoulla, both near Limassol, in Cyprus. He was educated at Tottenhall Infants School, St Michael-at-Bowes Junior School (where he is now a school governor), Chace Boys Comprehensive School, followed by Tottenham College and then Liverpool Polytechnic where he received a law degree and was elected as vice president of the Students' Union in 1990.
Charalambous is a solicitor, and worked for Hackney Council in their housing litigation team. In the aftermath of the election, Charalambous resigned from his legal job with Hackney Council.
He has been a member of Enfield Council since 1994 for the Palmers Green Ward, and is an Associate Cabinet Member.
Charalambous had stood as Labour candidate for Epping Forest in 2005 and for Enfield Southgate in 2010 and 2015, before being elected in 2017. He is the second MP of Cypriot ancestry, and the first whose parents are both of Cypriot extraction. The former Conservative MP Chris Kelly, who represented Dudley South in the 2010–15 parliament, was the first MP of a part-Cypriot heritage.
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