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Claudia Webbe
Claudia Naomi Webbe (born 8 March 1965) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East from 2019 to 2024. Elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 2019, she sat as an Independent from 2021 until she lost her seat at the 2024 general election.
Born in Leicester, Webbe was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington from 2010 until her resignation in March 2021, having served as its cabinet member for environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 until her election to Parliament. Webbe was the first female MP for Leicester East.
She was suspended from the party whip in September 2020 after being charged with harassment of a woman who was having an affair with Webbe's then-partner. Webbe was later expelled from the Labour Party on 3 November 2021 after being convicted in October 2021. Her appeal was partially dismissed on 26 May 2022, though her sentence was reduced to eighty hours of community service, and compensation to the victim reduced from £1,000 to £50. As Webbe's reduced sentence was not custodial, it did not trigger a constituency recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015.
Claudia Webbe was born on 8 March 1965 in Leicester. She has described how she was born and brought up in Leicester to parents of African descent who migrated from Nevis to the United Kingdom around the time of the Windrush generation.
She attended King Richard III Secondary school, now Fullhurst Community College, in south-west Leicester and Gateway Sixth Form College. She attended Lanchester Polytechnic from 1983 to 1986, gaining a BSc degree in mathematics, statistics and computers.
She studied Social Science at Leicester Polytechnic, a professional qualification in community and youth work at the University of Birmingham and a postgraduate diploma in socio-legal studies at the University of Nottingham, specialising in children, followed by race and ethnic relations at Birkbeck, University of London.
Webbe is a founder and former chair of Operation Trident, a community-led initiative created in the mid-1990s to tackle the disproportionate effects of gun violence on black communities. In 2010, it was reported that Operation Trident would be disbanded as part of spending cuts.
In February 2013, Trident was reformed as the Trident Gang Crime Command to focus on youth violence, with the police chairing the Trident Independent Advisory Group itself. Webbe opposed the change, and called it "a backwards step on race".
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Claudia Webbe
Claudia Naomi Webbe (born 8 March 1965) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester East from 2019 to 2024. Elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 2019, she sat as an Independent from 2021 until she lost her seat at the 2024 general election.
Born in Leicester, Webbe was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington from 2010 until her resignation in March 2021, having served as its cabinet member for environment and transport. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2016 until her election to Parliament. Webbe was the first female MP for Leicester East.
She was suspended from the party whip in September 2020 after being charged with harassment of a woman who was having an affair with Webbe's then-partner. Webbe was later expelled from the Labour Party on 3 November 2021 after being convicted in October 2021. Her appeal was partially dismissed on 26 May 2022, though her sentence was reduced to eighty hours of community service, and compensation to the victim reduced from £1,000 to £50. As Webbe's reduced sentence was not custodial, it did not trigger a constituency recall petition under the Recall of MPs Act 2015.
Claudia Webbe was born on 8 March 1965 in Leicester. She has described how she was born and brought up in Leicester to parents of African descent who migrated from Nevis to the United Kingdom around the time of the Windrush generation.
She attended King Richard III Secondary school, now Fullhurst Community College, in south-west Leicester and Gateway Sixth Form College. She attended Lanchester Polytechnic from 1983 to 1986, gaining a BSc degree in mathematics, statistics and computers.
She studied Social Science at Leicester Polytechnic, a professional qualification in community and youth work at the University of Birmingham and a postgraduate diploma in socio-legal studies at the University of Nottingham, specialising in children, followed by race and ethnic relations at Birkbeck, University of London.
Webbe is a founder and former chair of Operation Trident, a community-led initiative created in the mid-1990s to tackle the disproportionate effects of gun violence on black communities. In 2010, it was reported that Operation Trident would be disbanded as part of spending cuts.
In February 2013, Trident was reformed as the Trident Gang Crime Command to focus on youth violence, with the police chairing the Trident Independent Advisory Group itself. Webbe opposed the change, and called it "a backwards step on race".
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