Emily Benn
Emily Benn | |
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Benn in 2009 | |
| Common Councillor for City of London Common Council | |
| Assumed office 24 March 2022 | |
| Councillor for Croydon Borough Council | |
| In office 23 May 2014 – 10 March 2016 | |
| Ward | West Thornton |
| Majority | 1,777 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn 4 October 1989 Croydon, London, England |
| Political party | Independent (2022–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Labour |
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| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Investment banking |
| Website | democracy |
Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn (born 4 October 1989) is an English politician, who has represented the Ward of Bread Street on the Court of Common Council of the City of London since 2022.
Benn unsuccessfully contested both the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections as a Labour Party parliamentary candidate. At the 2014 local elections, Benn was elected to the West Thornton Ward of Croydon Borough Council, serving until 2016. At the 2022 local elections, she was elected to represent Bread Street Ward on the City Common Council.
The granddaughter of the late Labour MP Tony Benn, she is the eldest child and only daughter of the 3rd Viscount Stansgate by his wife Nita Clarke (née Bowes).