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The Right Honourable
Valerie Vaz
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office 6 October 2016 – 9 May 2021
Leader
Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer
Preceded by
Paul Flynn
Succeeded by
Thangam Debbonaire
Member of Parliament for Walsall South
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by
Bruce George
Majority
3,456 (8.1%)
Personal details
Born
Valerie Carol Marian Vaz
(1954-12-07) 7 December 1954 (age 69) Aden Colony (now Yemen)
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Paul Townsend
Relations
Keith Vaz (brother)
Children
1 daughter
Alma mater
Bedford College, University of London
Website
Official website
Valerie Carol Marian Vaz[1] (born 7 December 1954) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South since 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2016 to 2021 in the Shadow Cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.
^"Profile: Valerie Carol Marian Vaz". ukwhoswho.com. UK Who's Who. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
Valerie Carol Marian Vaz (born 7 December 1954) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South...
first-class Honours degree (1979), later promoted to MA (1987). Vaz has two sisters, Valerie (born 1954), who has been the MP for Walsall South since 2010...
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at the 2010 general election. He was succeeded in his constituency by ValerieVaz. In May 2011, George was awarded the Medal of Honour by the President...
for Richmond Park in London 1997–2005, made a life peer in June 2005. ValerieVaz (born 1954) Labour politician and solicitor MP for Walsall South 2010...
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was dismissed as Chief Whip and replaced by his deputy, Alan Campbell. ValerieVaz departed as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and was replaced by...
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Karen Bradley, Chuka Umunna, Louise Mensch, Dominic Raab, Tracey Crouch, ValerieVaz and Caroline Lucas. During the 2010–15 Parliament, John Bercow was the...
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Party and Starmer appointed his deputy Alan Campbell to succeed him. ValerieVaz was sacked as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and was replaced...
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