Office: | Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West |
Predecessor: | Conor Burns |
Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
Majority: | 3,224 (8.2%) |
Office1: | Member of Westminster City Council for West End |
Term Start1: | 5 May 2022 |
Party: | Labour |
Jessica Jade Toale is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bournemouth West since 2024.[1]
Toale has worked as a foreign affairs and international development adviser to numerous organisations. She was a political adviser to Labour MP Ivan Lewis from 2011 to 2013, in his role as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and later Northern Ireland.[2] Toale co-founded the Labour Foreign Policy Group.[3] In 2016, she was on the Labour shortlist for candidates in the 2016 Richmond Park by-election.[4] She was previously a member of the Young Fabians executive committee.[5]
She was elected as a Member of Westminster City Council for West End in 2022,[6] and subsequently appointed Deputy Cabinet Member for Culture, Heritage and the Arts.[7]
Toale was elected as MP for Bournemouth West at the 2024 general election, defeating incumbent Conor Burns to become its first non-Conservative representative. She had previously contested the Labour candidacy for the 2016 Richmond Park by-election without success.[8]