Thangam debonaire biography of martin

British politician (born 1966)

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Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire (néeSingh, 3 August 1966)^[1] is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West between 2015 and 2024.

A member of the Labour Party, she served as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2023 until 2024.^[2] She was previously Shadow Secretary of State for Housing from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2021 to 2023.

She was appointed shadow Arts and Culture Minister in January 2016, but resigned the following June owing to her lack of confidence in the Labour Party Leader, Jeremy Corbyn.^[3] She rejoined his frontbench team as a whip in October that year,^[4] before being made Shadow Brexit Minister in January 2020.^[5]

In the 2024 general election, Debbonaire ran in Bristol Central (which