National Health Service (NHS) manager Kate Osamor is the Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate for the Edmonton constituency in London after stiff contest with fellow diasporan Kate Anolue. Ms Osamor, who has worked for the NHS for 15 years, is a trade union activist, a women’s charity trustee and a member of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee. She made funding the NHS, opposing its fragmentation and standing up to government cuts the centrepiece of her campaign.
Kate is a daughter of Martha Osamor, a left-wing activist and a member of Labour's Black Sections - a movement fighting for fairer representation in parliament.
When Stuart Holland resigned from the House of Commons in 1989 a dramatic by-election was triggered in Vauxhall, Mathar Osamor was to replace him but Martha was vetoed from becoming the official candidate as Labour's leader, Neil Kinnock, became obsessed with resisting the rising left-wing rank and file members. It was a contest that many claim Martha could have easily won, given the chance. Instead Kate Hoey was chosen for the candidacy and has been sitting as MP for Vauxhall ever since.
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