Dawn Butler MP Articles

Black History Month provides us with the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the black community in the UK. Hopefully one day we will celebrate them all year round, writes Dawn Butler MP This month is the 30th anniversary of Black History Month in the United...

Suggestions that George Galloway should be readmitted to the Labour party are rather bewildering. As chair of the women’s parliamentary Labour party, I am sure that there would be an almighty revolt. Galloway has an ugly track record in opposing Labour women. Talk to...

Labour’s historic breakthrough in African-Caribbean representation came 1987 with the election of Bernie Grant, Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz. Along with 23 African-Caribbean and Asian colleagues I was elected as member of parliament for Brent Central in...

Brent Central is a north-west London seat whose residents have voted Labour and Liberal Democrat in local and national elections over the past decade. The outcome next May could well indicate the shape of the government to come. Brent Central is a lively, vibrant and...