Bayo Alaba

Bayo Alaba
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Southend East and Rochford
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byJames Duddridge
Majority4,027 (10.1%)
Member of Redbridge London Borough Council for Wanstead Park
In office
5 May 2022 – 17 September 2024
Personal details
BornAdebayo Alaba
PartyIndependent (since 2026)
Other political
affiliations
Labour (until 2026)
Children3
Education

Adebayo Alaba (Listenⓘ) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend East and Rochford since 2024. He has sat as an independent MP since he was suspended from the Labour Party on 17 August 2026.

Early life and career

Alaba is from the Forest Gate area of London and is of Nigerian descent.

He earned a bachelor's degree in manufacturing and business from Coventry University in 1995. He later studied social politics at the London School of Economics in 2011.

Alaba is a former reservist paratrooper. In 2024, he was airdropped to Normandy as part of the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.

Prior to being an MP, he was a councillor for Wanstead Park ward on Redbridge London Borough Council from 2022 to his resignation in 2024.

Parliamentary career

Alaba won the seat from the Conservatives with a 19% swing, the first time they had lost it since the seat was created in 1997. He was elected as a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on 21 October 2024.

He is a member of the Fabian Society's executive committee.

In August 2026, he was suspended from the Labour Party over questions about taxpayer-funded COVID-19 bounceback loans he had received.

Personal life

Alaba is married and is a father of three. He owns seven rental properties.

Notes

  1. ↑ Membership suspended.

References

  1. ↑ "Members Sworn". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Southend East and Rochford results". BBC News.
  3. ↑ "Labour select candidate to fight to become new Southend MP when James Duddridge quits". Basildon Canvey and Southend Echo. 2 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Greenwood, George (17 August 2026). "Labour MP suspended after questions over Covid bounceback loan". The Times. Retrieved 2026-08-17.
  5. ↑ Busari, Biodun (6 July 2024). "Four British-Nigerians who won UK parliament seats". Punch. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  6. ↑ "Tory's taunting tweet aimed at Southend Labour candidate sparks 'smearing' claims". Echo. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  7. ↑ Jones, Morgan (9 June 2024). "Rayner and Streeting hit out at Tory "smearing" of Labour candidate". LabourList. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  8. ↑ "Local elections 2022". Redbridge LBC. Archived from the original on 2026-07-05. Retrieved 2026-08-19.
  9. ↑ Mann, Sebastian (18 October 2024). "Bayo Alaba resignation as Wanstead councillor triggers vote". Ilford Recorder. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
  10. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Mr Bayo Alaba – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  11. ↑ "Executive committee". Fabian Society. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  12. ↑ Greenwood, George (17 August 2026). "Labour MP suspended after questions over Covid bounceback loan". The Times. Retrieved 2026-08-17.
  13. ↑ "Labour MP suspended as party launches investigation into Covid loans". BBC News. 17 August 2026. Retrieved 2026-08-17.
  14. ↑ "Labour MP under investigation by party over Covid loans to his businesses". Guardian. 17 August 2026. Retrieved 2026-08-17.
  15. ↑ "Labour select candidate to fight to become new Southend MP when James Duddridge quits". Echo. 2 December 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  16. ↑ Gross, Anna; Pickard, Jim (23 August 2024). "New Labour MP is biggest landlord in House of Commons". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  17. ↑ "Exclusive: How a Labour MP evicted a homeless mother of two". The Londoner. 22 November 2024.