Lurline Champagnie
Lurline Champagnie OBE, is a Conservative Party councillor in the London Borough of Harrow, England, past Mayor of Harrow, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative Party nomination for Mayor of London. She is a member of the Conservative Harrow Cabinet Local Government.
In 1992, when Champagnie stood for election to Parliament in Islington North, she became the first black woman to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives.[1]
References
- ↑ Teeman, Tim (26 February 1995). "A woman's place is round the table". The Independent (London). Retrieved 22 May 2009.
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