Emily Benn  Emily Sophia Wedgwood Benn (born 4 October 1989), styled as The Honourable Emily Benn socially, is a research assistant and formerly an English Labour politician. She is the eldest child and only daughter of The 3rd Viscount Stansgate and Nita Clarke (née Bowes), and the granddaughter of the late Labour MP Tony Benn. She was an unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate in both the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections. At the 2014 local elections, Benn was elected to the West Thornton ward of Croydon Borough Council. Benn was born in 1989 in Croydon, England, at the time that the Labour Party Conference of that year was being held. As the daughter of a viscount, she is entitled to be styled as "The Honourable". Benn is a quarter-Indian on her mother's side. Benn claims that her first political experience was campaigning for her grandfather in his Chesterfield constituency in the 1992 general election at age two, and she joined the Labour Party at age 14. Four generations of her family have served as British Members of Parliament (MP) – uncle Hilary Benn, grandfather Tony Benn, great-grandfather William Wedgwood Benn and great-great-grandfathers, Sir John Benn and Daniel Holmes. Benn attended Wallington High School for Girls where she achieved 11 A* grades in her GCSEs. She then studied Music, History and Latin for A level at St Olave's Grammar School, and later read History and Politics at New College, Oxford. After university Benn joined the graduate training programme at UBS Investment Bank. She later joined the multi-asset sales team at the bank in London. In 2016 she started working for UBS in New York. , Benn is a graduate research assistant at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. On 12 September 2007, three weeks before her eighteenth birthday, Benn was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the West Sussex constituency of East Worthing and Shoreham at the 2010 general election. The sitting MP, Conservative Tim Loughton, was defending a majority over Labour of 8,183 votes from the 2005 general election. At the election, Benn finished in third place, 4,276 votes behind the Liberal Democrat candidate in second place, while Loughton increased his majority to 11,105 votes. On 16 July 2014, Benn was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Croydon South for the 2015 general election. She increased the Labour vote share by 4.8%, but was defeated by Conservative candidate Chris Philp.