Florence Eshalomi is the Labour MP for Vauxhall, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019 with a majority of 19,612 over the Liberal Democrats.
She currently serves as the shadow minister for democracy in Labour’s levelling up, housing and communities team.
Vauxhall is a long standing safe Labour seat, covering the inner city areas around Brixton, just to the south of the Houses of Parliament across the Thames. An ethnically diverse constituency, this constituency is one of the most densely populated in London. Despite the previous Labour MP, Kate Hoey, being a Brexit supporter, the local electorate voted 77.6% to remain within the European Union in the 2016 referendum, one of the highest figures anywhere in the UK.
Eshalomi previously served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Labour’s Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner.
Born in 1980, Florence Eshalomi was educated at the Middlesex University. She worked as a public affairs account manager for the race equality pressure group, the Runnymede Trust, before being elected to Parliament.
Having served as a local Councillor on Lambeth borough council, Eshalomi was elected to the London Assembly in 2016.
Regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party, and a member of the grass roots organisation, Momentum, she nominated Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership in 2020.
She is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime, and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Nigeria, Erasmus, Eye Health and Visual Impairment, and Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.
Eshalomi is married with two children.
Email – florence.eshalomi.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.florenceeshalomi.com
Twitter – @FloEshalomi
