14 Facts About Tom Copley

Tom Phillip Copley was born on 11 May 1985 and is a British Labour Party and Co-operative Party politician, serving as the Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development.

Tom Copley served as a London wide member of the London Assembly from 2012 to 2020 and is a former councillor on Lewisham Council.

Tom Copley has worked as the local organiser and agent for the Labour Party in Camden and on Ken Livingstone's successful campaign to be selected as Labour's candidate for the 2012 London mayoral election.

Tom Copley was Chair of London Young Labour from 2008 to 2009 and sat as London representative on the Young Labour National Committee from 2008 to 2011.

Tom Copley remains the youngest person ever to be elected to the London Assembly.

Tom Copley was re-elected as a Londonwide member in 2016 as the second-placed candidate on Labour's Londonwide list.

In May 2018, Tom Copley was elected to represent the Sydenham ward on Lewisham London Borough Council, as one of three Labour councillors.

Tom Copley was reselected as one of Labour's Londonwide list candidates for the 2020 London Assembly election, though he was appointed to his Deputy Mayoral role and thus dropped out of the race before the order of candidates was determined.

Tom Copley has been strongly critical of the failed Garden Bridge project, campaigned for greater transparency on the issue, and served as Chair of the Assembly's Garden Bridge Working Group.

Tom Copley is on the boards of the New Diorama Theatre in Camden and the humanist charity Humanists UK, formerly the British Humanist Association.

Tom Copley is a republican and a member of Republic, the campaign for an elected head of state.

Tom Copley has called for the introduction of a German model of rent regulation to be introduced to regulate rents in the private rented sector.

In July 2013 Tom Copley undertook a rapporteurship into the challenges facing small theatres in London.

Tom Copley has campaigned extensively on housing issues including homelessness, and the Right to Buy policy, on which he has produced two reports.