";s:4:"text";s:3243:" Photograph: Stephen Shepherd/The Observer A fter the elation of becoming an MP in May 2015, Thangam Debbonaire was … Ms Thangam Debbonaire, is a Labour Party MP for Bristol West. Thangam Debbonaire’s voting in Parliament. Thangam Debbonaire MP. This is a selection of Thangam Debbonaire’s votes.
Shortly after being elected, Debbonaire was diagnosed with breast cancer, and did not attend a parliamentary vote from June 2015 until March 2016. On Wednesday 29 July I am hosting the first of a series of events designed… While we find our way through one crisis, we cannot forget another, potentially catastrophic crisis… She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West at the 2015 general election, when she defeated the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams. Thangam Debbonaire is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.. She supports mandatory graphic health warnings on alcoholic drinks, akin to those on cigarette packaging, and has called for parliamentary debate to raise awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer.Debbonaire supports the decriminalisation and regulation of drugs such as In August 2016, a student at the University of Bristol was investigated after telling Debbonaire to "get in the sea", an In November 2017, a constituent who harassed Debbonaire was jailed for 20 weeks after leaving multiple "upsetting and disturbing" racially-offensive answerphone messages for a senior case worker.Debbonaire is married to Kevin Walton, an opera singer, former actor and a director of Ark Stichting, an Amsterdam charity that works with children with Since her breast cancer treatment, during which time she read about the links between cancer and alcohol, Debbonaire is Debbonaire cites music, knitting and observing space as her hobbies.