General Election 2024 London seats: Who will be my MP in...Peckham after Harriet Harman has stood down?
Millions of voters across London will go the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactive map. Here we turn the spotlight on:
Candidates for main parties (in alphabetical order):
Miatta Fahnbulleh - Labour
Ben Mascall - Conservatives
Linda Purcell - Reform UK
Claire Frances Sheppard - Green Party
David Watson - Liberal Democrats
Summary:
The constituency of Peckham was first created in 1885.
Harriet Harman became the MP in a by-election in October 1982.
It was abolished at the 1997 election, when Tony Blair won his first landslide, and the constituency for this area became Camberwell and Peckham, a seat Ms Harman won in 2019 with a majority of 33,780.
A solicitor, she served in the Blair and Brown governments, and more recently was known at Westminster as the Mother of the House, as she was the female MP with the longest continuous service.
She was also Labour’s Deputy Leader during the Brown years, having earlier in the first Blair administration been Britain’s first women’s minister, and also clashed with Frank Field over the social security brief.
More recently, she backed Diane Abbott being allowed to stand again to be Labour MP in Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
The constituency, with some boundary changes, has now gone back to the earlier name of Peckham.
Area: Wards in the constituency include Faraday, North Walworth, Nunhead & Queen’s Road, Old Kent Road, Peckham, Rye Lane, and St. Giles.
I’m not sure if I’m in this constituency: Here’s how you can check
Boundary changes impact (Thrasher and Rallings analysis): Boundary changes make this slightly less of a Labour seat than Camberwell and Peckham. This old constituency was won by Labour in 2019 with 71.3 per cent of the vote, with the Tories getting 11.5 per cent, and Lib Dems nine per cent. Under the new boundaries, it would have been 70.8 per cent Labour, 11.2 per cent Conservative and 10.4 per cent Lib Dem.
YouGov MRP poll prediction: Labour hold
Evening Standard view: Despite the boundary changes it remains a very strong Labour seat.
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