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Colum Eastwood (born 30 April 1983) is an Irish nationalist politician who has served as Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) since 2015. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle since 2019, served in Northern Ireland Assembly from 2011 to 2019 and served on Derry City Council from 2005 to 2011.
Jun 6, 2024 · Who is he? Colum Eastwood may only be 41, but he is a veteran of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. The 2015 party conference - where he was elected leader - was his 18th and he has held...
Jun 12, 2024 · Derry's youngest mayor at the age of 27, Colum Eastwood has now been leader of Northern Ireland's nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) for nearly a decade.
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In Social Democratic and Labour Party: History. In November 2015 Colum Eastwood took over as party leader and led the SDLP into the May 2016 Assembly elections, in which it lost two seats to fall to 12. The SDLP again won 12 seats in a snap election for the Assembly in March 2017, but this….
Colum Eastwood was elected Leader of the SDLP in November 2015. A Derry City Councillor from 2005 until 2011, Colum distinguished himself as a tirelessly hardworking public representative.
Jul 16, 2021 · SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has said he has received death threats after naming a former soldier facing murder charges over his actions on Bloody Sunday. The Foyle MP used parliamentary...
Oct 5, 2022 · Colum Eastwood became leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in 2015 while serving as Stormont assembly member for his home seat of Foyle. In 2019, he took Foyle’s Westminster seat from Sinn Fein’s Elisha McCallion on a 17% swing.
