Speakers

Dawn Butler MP was elected as the Member of Parliament for Brent South on 5 May 2005 and became the first ever elected African-Caribbean woman to become a Government Minister in the UK. Dawn was then elected MP for Brent Central in 2015, which is now Brent East. Dawn continues to commit her time in parliament to representing groups and people in society who are underrepresented.

Dawn has been awarded three times by the Patchwork Foundation; the People's Choice 2016 Labour MP of the Year, Overall MP of the Year 2017 and Labour MP of the Year 2020. Dawn served as Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities from 2017-2020.

Dawn now serves as Chair of the London Parliamentary Labour Party and made history as the first Black female to sit on the Speaker’s Panel of Chairs. Dawn also sits on the Speaker’s Steering Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is the first ever MP to use British Sign Language to ask a question in the Commons.