14 Facts About Emily Benn

Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn was born on 4 October 1989 and is an English politician, who has represented the Ward of Bread Street on the Court of Common Council of the City of London since 2022.

At the 2014 local elections, Emily Benn was elected to the West Thornton Ward of Croydon Borough Council, serving until 2016.

The granddaughter of the late Labour MP Tony Emily Benn, she is the eldest child and only daughter of the 3rd Viscount Stansgate by his wife Nita Clarke.

Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn was born 4 October 1989 in Croydon, London, where the 1989 Labour Party Conference was being held, as the daughter of a viscount, she is entitled to be styled as The Honourable.

Emily Benn attended Wallington High School for Girls where she achieved 11 A* grades in her GCSEs.

In 2018 Benn was a graduate research assistant at the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, helping to write a book on ageing demographics with Camilla Cavendish.

Emily Benn later worked as Chief of Staff for Jonathan Powell before becoming Chief of Staff of Tortoise Media.

On 12 September 2007, three weeks before her eighteenth birthday, Emily Benn was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the West Sussex constituency of East Worthing and Shoreham at the 2010 general election.

The sitting MP, Conservative Tim Loughton, defending a majority over Labour of 8,183 votes from the 2005 general election, defeated Emily Benn, who finished in third place, 4,276 votes behind the Liberal Democrat candidate in second place, while Loughton increased his majority to 11,105 votes.

On 16 July 2014, Emily Benn was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Croydon South for the 2015 general election.

In July 2013, Emily Benn was selected as one of three Labour candidates for the ward of West Thornton on Croydon Borough Council in the 2014 local council elections.

Emily Benn resigned as a Councillor in 2016 after accepting a job in New York City.

Emily Benn served on the Board of Trustees of the London Youth Games and London Mozart Players.

Emily Benn returned to local politics in 2022, being elected to the Ward of Bread Street on the City of London Common Council as an Independent at the 2022 election.