Michael Cashman
ACTOR | WRITER | POLITICIAN
British Labour politician and former actor. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency from 1999 until he stood down in 2014.
Deeply frustrated by the Labour leadership‘s failure to provide a positive pro- European response to Brexit Lord Cashman publicly resigned his membership of the Labour Party on the 22nd of May 2019.
In the 2013 Queen's New Year honours list Michael was made a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for political services and equalities.
On 23 of September 2014 Michael was elevated to the House of Lords (Labour) and took the title of Baron Cashman of Limehouse.
His memoir One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square was published by Bloomsbury in February 2020
He rejoined the labour party under the leadership of Sir Kier Starmer in 2022 and sits as a Labour Peer.
