Miatta Fahnbulleh was elected as the MP for Peckham on July 5, 2024, amidst a Labour landslide. Balancing her new responsibilities as a junior minister and raising three children, she has extensive experience in public policy, having previously worked at the Cabinet Office and led the New Economics Foundation. During the pandemic, she transitioned into politics to advocate for transformative change. Her personal experiences shaped her understanding of how economic policies can fail communities, prompting her call for active political engagement to drive meaningful reforms.
"I definitely knew I wanted to go into public policy. I'm an economist by training. And the reason I went into economics is, I think growing up in my community, you see very viscerally how the economy doesn't work for people."
"I thought the pandemic would be a massive wake-up call and a lot would change - the kind of 'build back better' would be a reality and it just wasn't."
"You need people in politics who are trying to drive change, because otherwise it won't happen."
"I was struck by the difference between policy and politics in terms of the reactions of the people I was asking to vote for me."
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