COuncil
The prime purpose of the Council is to further the aims of London Region CND, organise London-wide campaigning, exchange ideas and discuss National CND campaigns.
Chair: Carol Turner
Treasurer: Phil Sedler
Minutes Secretary: Alison Williams
Committee members: Hannah Kemp-Welch, Rosemary Addington, Shigeo Kobayashi, John McGrath and John Morris
Our CND National Council representatives are Gini Bevan, David Leal and John Morris.
Vice-Presidents
We are pleased to announce three well-known Londoners have agreed to take up an honorary position as London CND Vice President. Baroness Jenny Jones, Cllr Emma Dent Coad, and Muad Qureshi. All three are helping attract support and increase interest in nuclear disarmament among Londoners.
Jenny Jones settled in London in 1991. She had a wide range of jobs before rising to political prominence – from mucking out horse stables, through crafts teacher and office manager, to qualified archaeologist. A former Chair of the Green Party, she’s best known in London for her role as an elected member of the Greater London Assembly and as Deputy Mayor of London in 2003-4. Nowadays Jenny is Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, the first Green Party representative in the House of Lords from where she continues to campaign on the dangers of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse emissions. Jenny took her title from the Brighton council estate she grew up on, she tells us, and despite becoming a peer of the realm has no car and still grows her own vegetables.
Emma Dent Coad was MP for Kensington 2017-19 and is perhaps best known as the first Labour MP ever to win the seat. The Grenfell Tower fire happened only days after her election, and Emma became a nationally-recognised figure criticising Kensington and Chelsea Council for their failings which led to what she considered an ‘entirely preventable’ tragedy. A long-time opponent of nuclear weapons, Emma became Labour Vice Chair of Parliamentary CND speaking out against Trident and opposing war. She was born and educated in London, graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in the History of Design and continuing her studies at the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture. Emma has been a Kensington Councillor since 2006 and continues in that role. Westminster’s loss is London CND’s gain.
Murad Qureshi, whose family hails from Bangladesh, was born in Greater Manchester and brought up in Westminster. At university he specialised in environmental economy and maintains a keen interest in South Asia, in particular the potential for nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India. Murad was a member of the London Assembly from 2004-16, and again in 2020-21. He is a member of CND National Council and a former chair of Stop the War Coalition, and an avid football fan.