Jessica Toale

Jessica is Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Bournemouth West and a councillor in Westminster’s West End ward. She formerly served as a political advisor to two shadow secretaries of state for international development and is the co-founder of the Labour Foreign Policy Group.

She has worked for a variety of NGOs, development consultancies, universities and UN agencies. She has an MSc in Urbanisation and Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a Visiting Fellow at King’s College London where she works on sexual exploitation in the aid industry.