Seema Malhotra has served as the Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers since 2021, and previously sat on the opposition front bench as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Minister for Employment and a shadow Home Office minister.
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Seema Malhotra founded the Fabian Women's Network, and was a previous National Chair of the Young Fabians.
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The role earmarked Seema Malhotra to be among Labour's Home Office ministers if the party became elected to power.
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On 13 September 2015, Seema Malhotra was appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
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On 26 June 2016, Seema Malhotra resigned from the shadow cabinet over the leadership, along with dozens of other shadow ministers.
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Seema Malhotra supported Owen Smith in his failed bid to replace Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
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John McDonnell's explanation was that the office was a shadow Treasury team office which Seema Malhotra was moving out of, and his office manager who was a key holder, after seeing boxes outside, went in to check if it was now empty.
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Seema Malhotra voted in the successful yes lobby in a key House of Commons division of 25 June 2018 as to the National Policy Statement: Airports which laid out government support for a third runway, and was not among the 28 of 46 London Labour MPs opposing the runway.
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Seema Malhotra was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers in the minor May 2021 reshuffle, succeeding Lucy Powell in the role.
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