Feryal Clark | |
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 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government | |
| In office 7 July 2024 – 7 September 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Camrose |
| Succeeded by | Kanishka Narayan |
| Member of Parliament forEnfield North | |
| Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Joan Ryan |
| Majority | 12,736 (29.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Feryal Demirci (1979-01-06)6 January 1979 (age 47) Malatya, Turkey |
| Party | Labour |
| Website | Official website |
Feryal Demirci Clark (/ˈfɛriəl/;[1]néeDemirci; born 6 January 1979)[2] is a BritishLabour Party politician who has served asMember of Parliament (MP) forEnfield North since2019. She served asParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government from July 2024 to September 2025.
Feryal Demirci was born on 6 January 1979 inMalatya,Turkey toKurdish Alevi parents with roots in Kürecik,Malatya Province.[3] She did a degree in biomedical science followed by a master's inbioinformatics at theUniversity of Exeter, and worked in the NHS in Pathology for six years.[4]
Clark was elected as a councillor for Brownswood ward in theLondon Borough of Hackney in 2006, representing it until 2014 when she was elected for Hoxton East & Shoreditch ward.[5][6] She rose to become the deputy mayor of Hackney and cabinet member for health, social care, leisure and parks.[7] As a councillor she promoted cycling in the Hackney borough.[8]
Clark endorsedYvette Cooper during the2015 leadership election.[3]
She was seventh on Labour's London-wide list for the2016 London Assembly election, but was not elected.[9][10][11]
At the2019 general election, Clark was elected to Parliament as MP forEnfield North with 51.8% of the vote and a majority of 6,492.[12][13] She became Labour's first everKurdish MP.[8][14] She made hermaiden speech in a Commons debate on Health and Social Care.[15]
Clark endorsedLisa Nandy forLeader of the Labour Party during the2020 leadership election.[16][17] She is a supporter ofLabour Friends of Israel.
In the November 2021 opposition front bench reshuffle, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Patient Safety.[18][19]
In January 2022, Clark called on UK Government to recognize theArmenian genocide. She has said "I was born in south-east Turkey and grew up hearing stories about the horrors faced by the Armenian people in that region. Almost 100 years ago, a whole culture and a whole people were systematically destroyed and had their identity erased in an act of appalling violence. Families were torn apart, with children never seeing their parents again. Some 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children were killed. Vibrant, centuries-old communities were simply wiped off the face of the map".[20]
In theSeptember 2023 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she was appointedShadow Minister for Health.[21]
At the2024 general election, Clark was re-elected to Parliament as MP forEnfield North with a decreased vote share of 49.1% and an increased majority of 12,736.[22] Following the election, Clark was appointedParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government as part of theDepartment for Science Innovation and technology in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's new government.[23]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forEnfield North 2019–present | Incumbent |
