# Lesley Mahmood

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British politician

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**Lesley Elizabeth Mahmood** is a British politician. She was active in [Militant](/source/Militant_(Trotskyist_group)) and [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) politics along with her brother Roy Farrar in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mahmood was prominent in the Liverpool District [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK))'s campaign for more money for the city from the government of [Margaret Thatcher](/source/Margaret_Thatcher), and was elected to the [Liverpool City Council](/source/Liverpool_City_Council) as part of the [Liverpool 29](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liverpool_29&action=edit&redlink=1) who replaced the Liverpool 47 when they were surcharged in 1986.[1]

She was also prominent in the campaign against the [Poll Tax](/source/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)) and was put forward to be the Labour candidate in the [Liverpool Walton by-election](/source/1991_Liverpool_Walton_by-election) caused by the death of [Eric Heffer](/source/Eric_Heffer) in 1991. Although she won a majority of 92 out of 140 Walton Labour Party members, once the union votes were counted, [Peter Kilfoyle](/source/Peter_Kilfoyle) became the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) candidate. In the ensuing by-election, Kilfoyle won with 21,317 (53.1%) votes while Mahmood, standing as Walton Real Labour, came third with 2,613 and 6.5% of the vote. The Walton by-election was a factor in the decision by Militant to leave the Labour Party, setting up first Militant Labour and then the [Socialist Party](/source/Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales)).[2]

Mahmood was later active in support of the sacked Liverpool Dockers. She left the Socialist Party in 1998 in disputes over the Euro, trade unions, and the relevance of [democratic centralism](/source/Democratic_centralism) to modern socialist politics and became a supporter of the [Socialist Solidarity Network](/source/Socialist_Solidarity_Network).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Liverpool 47"](https://web.archive.org/web/20050525094402/http://www.liverpool47.org/). Archived from [the original](http://www.liverpool47.org/) on 25 May 2005. Retrieved 16 December 2005.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Marxism and the British Labour Party, For The Scottish Turn: Against Dogmatic Methods In Thought And Action](http://www.marxist.net/openturn/main/f3-2.html)

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