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Lurline Champagnie

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Lurline Champagnie OBE is a former Conservative Party Councillor in the London Borough of Harrow, England who until 2010 represented the Pinner ward. She was a past Mayor of Harrow, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative Party nomination for Mayor of London in 2008. She was a Cabinet member of the Conservative Group on Harrow Council.

In 1992, when Champagnie stood for election to Parliament in Islington North, she became the first black woman to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives.[1]

References

  1. ^ Teeman, Tim (26 February 1995). "A woman's place is round the table". The Independent. London. Retrieved 22 May 2009.