Parliamentary Career
He stood at the Uxbridge by-election in July 1997, following the unexpected death seven days after the 1997 general election of incumbent Sir Michael Shersby. The seat was held for the Conservatives by John Randall.
Slaughter went on to gain a seat in Westminster at the 2005 general election, when he was elected as MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush in London after the retirement of veteran Labour MP Clive Soley.
Slaughter has been Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party London Regional Group since 2007. He became a member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee in October 2009 and the London Regional Select Committee from January 2010. Previously he was member of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee (2005–07) and Children, Schools and Families Select Committee (2007–09).
Slaughter's interests include the Middle East and particularly Palestine. He is Secretary of the Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East. His interests are reflected in the other APPGs of which he is a member, including country groups for Somalia, Albania, Kosovo and Spain. He is a member of Labour Friends of Poland and of the Caribbean, and of domestic groups for Crossrail, Housing Need and Homelessness, Gypsy Roma and Travellers, Conflict Issues and Tenant-Controlled Housing.
He has spoken in the House of Commons on housing, local government, education and climate change issues.
He has actively campaigned against Air Passenger Duty, Heathrow expansion and the planned demolition of social housing by the Conservative-led Council in his constituency.
The Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush constituency underwent a boundary change for the 2010 general election, and on 30 November 2006, the new Hammersmith Constituency Labour Party selected Slaughter as the Labour candidate for the new Hammersmith seat which he won in the 2010 general election with an increased majority.
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