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Black British women politicians

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Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch is a British politician who has been serving as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since November 2024. Badenoch previously worked in the Cabinet for prime ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak from 2022 to 2024. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex, previously Saffron Walden, in 2017.

British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (born 1953)

Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo

Zambian-born economist

Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal

British barrister and baroness

Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born 1967)

Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

British diplomat (born 1954)

Floella Benjamin

British actress, author, and businesswoman (born 1949)

British politician (born 1967)

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers

Athlete and winner of the British Beauty Contest

Miatta Fahnbulleh

liberian-born british economist and politician

British politician (born 1961)

British politician and Labour MP

British politician (born 1965)

Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey

British academic (born 1951)

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

British LGBTQ charity worker and columnist (born 1974)

Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids

British politician (1931–2025)

Abena Oppong-Asare

British politician

British broadcasting executive and anti-racist campaigner (1929-2020)

Scottish human rights lawyer and political activist

Florence Eshalomi

British politician (born 1980)

Marsha de Cordova

British politician (born 1976)

British politician (born 1983)

Paulette Hamilton

British Labour politician, MP for Birmingham Erdington

British politician (born 1965)

British politician (born 1968)

British politician (born 1950)

British Labour Party politician (born 1970)

Doreen Lawrence

British-Jamaican campaigner (born 1952)