“When I was selected as a Labour council candidate in 2009, people publicly challenged how I could possibly represent anyone from the Bengali community because of my faith and since my selection and election as the member of parliament for Liverpool, Wavertree, I have received a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse.”

Luciana Berger is a British politician. She served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree from 2010 to 2019, and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2025. She is associated with Labour, the Co-operative Party, the Liberal Democrats, and later returned to Labour. Berger was a founding member of The Independent Group, which later became Change UK, before she joined the Liberal Democrats. Her public career is centered on party politics and parliamentary service, with a record shaped by changing political alliances and representation in both the Commons and the Lords.