Sadiq Khan is the Labour MP for Tooting, having been elected on May 5th 2005.

In June 2009 Sadiq became Minister of State for Transport. He was also appointed to the Privy Council and asked to attend the Cabinet.

He leads on transport business in the House of Commons. His areas of responsibility include city and regional networks, including London and Crossrail, as well as environmental impact, climate change and Europe.

Before becoming a Minister Sadiq was very active as a backbencher in the Chamber, with a very high attendance record, and had spoken in several debates including those on young people's participation in democracy, citizenship and integration, House of Lords reform, equalities legislation, the NHS, Legal Aid, Climate Change, Affordable Housing, International Development and the London 2012 Olympics..

He is Chair of the Fabian Society, a patron of Progress and a member of Friends of the Earth and SERA. He belongs to the GMB and UNISON trade unions and is a member of the CWU group of MPs.

Sadiq was a Councillor for Tooting ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 until 2006 (and was deputy Leader of the Labour Group for 5 years). He was 23 when first elected and responsible for, amongst other things, the Conservative Council being required to change its policy on affordable housing..

Prior to becoming the MP for Tooting, Sadiq was a Human Rights solicitor having been a founding partner of one of the country's leading Human Rights firms. He was listed, in his last year as a practicing solicitor, as one of the county's leading lawyers in two separate categories of law in the Chambers and Partners directory 2004-05 (Human Rights and Police law).

Sadiq was born in St George's Hospital in Tooting in 1970. His early years were spent in a council flat in the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield. He attended local primary schools and the local comprehensive, Ernest Bevin Secondary School before going to University to study Law. He completed the Law Society finals at the College of Law in Guildford.

He was married in 1994 in Wandsworth. Sadiq's wife, also a solicitor, was born and raised in Tooting. They have 2 daughters aged 9 and 8.

Cllr Leonie Cooper is the Deputy Leader of the Wandsworth Labour Group, Labour’s Lead on Housing, and is a member of the Council’s Environment & Leisure Committee.  Leonie has represented Latchmere Ward since May 2006, along with Tony Belton & Maurice Johnson, and has lived in Wandsworth since 1990. She is the Chair of Governors of Chesterton School in Dagnall Street, and is an elected member of the Tooting Commons Management Advisory Committee. Leonie works closely with a number of local tenants, residents and community groups.

John Farebrother lives on Ribblesdale Road and has represented Furzedown as a Labour Councillor since being elected in May 1998. He was Mayor of the Borough during 2008/09.

As well as being an active member of St James’ Church, Mitcham Lane (and a pastoral care worker there), John is also a Trustee for the Furzedown Project. He campaigns hard to improve health and care services locally.  Previously he worked in public sector audit and hence has a strong belief in ensuring value for money in public expenditure.

John works hard to represent the interests of Furzedown residents and to ensure that the Council addresses the needs of the community he has lived in all his life. He is a keen cricketer and still plays and is chairman of a local cricket club.

Mark Thomas lives on Welham Road.  A Furzedown resident for more than five years, he cares passionately about the area, and has campaigned for improvements on issues such as crime and cleaning up the state of the streets.

As chair of the Furzedown Safer Neighbourhoods Team residents' panel, Mark has worked with the police and members of the community to bring down the number of burglaries and to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Mark is a local school governor, and also volunteers for the local mental health service, reviewing cases to ensure patients' rights are respected.