Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
Bell Ribeiro-Addy is a British-Ghanaian Labour MP who entered Parliament in 2019, originally representing Streatham and now serving as the MP for Clapham & Brixton Hill. Prior to becoming an MP, she worked as a Chief of Staff for Diane Abbott, trained as a lawyer, served as the National Black Students’ Officer for the National Union of Students, and was involved with numerous political campaigns, organising against the British National Party as a student activist.
In Parliament, Bell has led efforts on reparative justice, founding the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Afrikan Reparations and pressing the government to engage in dialogue with Commonwealth countries, including calls for an official apology for Britain’s role in chattel enslavement and colonialism. She also chairs the APPG for Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion, the APPG for Ghana, and the APPG for Immigration Detention, alongside wider work on equality, migrant rights and community advocacy.
News featuring Bell
Rooted & Rising – Episode 6
In the final episode of this series of Rooted & Rising, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Black Maternal Health, and Dr Annabel Sowemimo, NHS Consultant in Sexual & Reproductive Health and...