Emily Benn
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The Honourable Emily Benn |
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Emily Benn, in Mumbai in 2009
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| Councillor for Croydon London Borough Council | |
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In office 23 May 2014 – 10 March 2016 |
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| Ward | West Thornton |
| Majority | 1,777 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn 4 October 1989 Croydon, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford. |
| Occupation | Sales team at investment bank |
Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn (born 4 October 1989) is an English Labour politician. She is the eldest child and only daughter of Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate and Nita Clarke (née Bowes), and the granddaughter of the late Labour MP Tony Benn. She was an unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate in both the 2010 and 2015 UK 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 UBS.
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 New York City. 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 (MP) – uncle Hilary Benn, grandfather Tony Benn, great-grandfather William Wedgwood Benn and great-great-grandfathers, John Williams Benn and Daniel Holmes.
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