Thangam Debbonaire

Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire, Baroness Debbonaire (née Singh; born 3 August 1966) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West between 2015 and 2024, and made a life peer in the House of Lords shortly after. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2023 until 2024.

She was previously Shadow Secretary of State for Housing from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2021 to 2023. Debbonaire was appointed shadow Arts and Culture Minister in January 2016, but resigned the following June owing to her lack of confidence in Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. She rejoined his frontbench team as a whip in October that year, before being made Shadow Brexit Minister in January 2020.

In the 2024 general election, Debbonaire ran in Bristol Central (which largely replaced Bristol West following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies) but lost to Carla Denyer of the Green Party. In December that year, she was elevated to the Lords as Baroness Debbonaire, where she sits as a Labour peer.