# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-vaz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:28.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-vaz"
name: "Valerie Vaz"
slug: "valerie-vaz"
description: "Valerie Carol Marian Vaz is a British Labour politician and former solicitor who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall and Bloxwich, previously Walsall South, since 2010. She served as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons from 2016 to 2021 in the Shadow Cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer."
tagline: "British politician and lawyer (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Valerie_Vaz_MP_crop_2%2C_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.4
  momentum:             0.5172413793103449
  historical:           5.310550666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Valerie_VazMP"
    handle:    "Valerie_VazMP"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/valerievazmp/"
    handle:    "valerievazmp"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ValerieVazMP"
    handle:    "ValerieVazMP"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.valerievazmp.co.uk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Vaz"
    title: "Valerie Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "ڤاليرى ڤاز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C"
    title: "ভ্যালেরি ভাজ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%93%A6%E8%90%8A%E9%BA%97%C2%B7%E7%93%A6%E6%96%AF"
    title: "瓦萊麗·瓦斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Vaz"
    title: "Valerie Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2"
    title: "ویلری واز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266978"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump