Janet Daby is the Labour Party MP for Lewisham East, having first been elected to Parliament in a by-election in 2018. She was reelected in 2019 with a majority of 17,008.
The Lewisham East constituency is found within South East London and covers Catford, Grove Park, and parts of Blackheath. It was briefly represented by the Conservative Sports Minister, Colin Moynihan between 1983 and 1992, but has been held by Labour ever since.
Daby is currently the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.
Janet Daby previously served briefly as Shadow Minister for Faiths during 2020. However she resigned after commenting that those with a religious objection to same sex marriage should be protected from losing their jobs if they refused to certify the marriage, something which would have constituted unlawful discrimnation.
She nominated Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership in 2020.
She was a Labour councillor in Lewisham between 2010 to 2019, and worked in Children’s Social Care prior being elected to Parliament.
Born in 1970, Janet Daby was educated at Blackheath Bluecoat School in Greenwich. The daughter of Windrush migrants from Guyana and Jamaica, she has two children.
At Westminster, Daby is Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Dyslexia and Other Specific Learning Difficulties, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, and Christianity in the Holy Land.
Email – janet.daby.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.janetdaby.org
Twitter – @JanetDaby
