Claudia Webbe
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Cllr Claudia Webbe |
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Islington Borough Councillor for Bunhill Ward |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Donna Boffa |
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Claudia Webbe Leicester, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Relations | Simon Webbe |
Claudia Webbe is the former chairman of Scotland Yard's Trident Gang Crime Command Independent Advisory Group, having participated in its development in the mid-1990s. She is a Councillor in the London Borough of Islington and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
Webbe was an adviser to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and a member of his election campaign team in 2000 and 2004.
Webbe spoke in defence of Livingstone when, on 24 February 2006, he was found guilty by the Standards Board for England's Adjudication Panel of bringing his office into disrepute and suspended from office for four weeks, due to his comparison of a Jewish Evening Standard reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. In a letter to The Guardian, Webbe emphasised the anti-racism organisations Livingstone had worked for, and stated that "his history of work in the anti-racist movement is unquestionable." Livingston's suspension was later overturned by the High Court.
She was elected to Islington London Borough Council in 2010 as part of the Labour majority controlling the council, representing Bunhill ward, and re-elected in 2014.
In his 2007 Callaghan Memorial Lecture in Cardiff, Tony Blair, commenting on gun crime, said that we cannot pretend "that it is not young black kids doing it..." and stated that the black community "need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang culture that is killing innocent young black kids", In response, Webbe described the Prime Minister's comments as a "kick in the teeth" to the historical and ongoing work of the black community, arguing that "In the absence of statutory provision, black voluntary, community and faith organisations had historically stepped up to the challenge to provide vital...self-help organisations so as to meet the needs of... vulnerable children and young people and challenge inequality and racism". Webbe argued that far from sitting back it was the community itself that was providing a safety net of services, support and action to protect young people from harm, adding that in her opinion Blair was "wrong to assert or imply that this is a 'black problem': the bullet does not discriminate in its effect, and neither is the black community responsible for the manufacture, supply and importation of dangerous weapons."
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