Euro knowledge Philanthropy Leadership Lecture and Award Reception. 2020
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Welcoming Remarks

5:07 – 5:15
Baroness Martha Osamor / Incumbent Member House of Lords UK  

Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor is a British–Nigerian Labour Party politician, life peer, community activist and civil rights campaigner. She is the mother of Kate Osamor MP.

Osamor was nominated by some branches within the Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party in the selection for a candidate at the by-election in 1989, but was not shortlisted by the Labour Party National Executive Committee. Kate Hoey was selected as the eventual Labour candidate.

 

She was nominated for a life peerage by Jeremy Corbyn in May 2018 and on 26 November 2018 the Queen conferred upon her the title of Baroness Osamor, of Tottenham in the London Borough of Haringey and of Asaba in the Republic of Nigeria