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Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor

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Osamor was a co-founder of the United Black Women's Action Group (UBWAG). From 1977 to 1997, Osamor worked at the Tottenham Law Centre (now called the Haringey Law Centre) and during this time became part of the Broadwater Farm Youth Association Mothers' Project on the nearby
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was instead selected by the national party as the constituency's Labour candidate; Hoey held the seat for Labour.
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national vice-chair, Osamor was nominated by most of the branches within the
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Martha Osamor
The Right Honourable

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Life Peerage
Delta State
Nigeria
British Nigerian
Labour
Kate Osamor
née
Labour Party
life peer
Kate Osamor
MP
Edmonton and Winchmore Hill
Delta State
Tottenham
Broadwater Farm
Labour
Bruce Grove
London Borough of Haringey
Haringey London Borough Council
Broadwater Farm riot
Labour Party Black Sections
Vauxhall
Constituency Labour Party
by-election in 1989

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