Unmesh Desai

Unmesh Desai
Unmesh in 2017
Member of the London Assembly
for City and East
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded byJohn Biggs
Majority78,307
Councillor on London Borough of Newham for East Ham Central (2002-2018)
In office
1998–2018
Personal details
PartyLabour and Co-op
ProfessionPolitician
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Unmesh Desai is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party, he has represented the City and East constituency in the London Assembly since 2016. He served as a councillor on the London Borough of Newham from 1998 until 2018, representing East Ham Central from 2002 onwards. Desai has been an anti-racism activist since the 1970s; he organised marches and demonstrations in response to a wave of racist murders, and helped to found the Newham Youth Movement to confront the rise in racial violence and injustice.