Councillor Lauren Wall and Councillor Aysha Raza have both stood down from their roles on the cabinet amidst a reshuffle within Ealing Council. 

Wall stood down in March 2023 from her role as cabinet member for Genuinely Affordable Homes and Raza has left her role as cabinet member for tackling inequality. 

Wall said in a letter to Council Leader Peter Mason: "I remain strongly committed to the renewed and inspiring vision that you, as leader, have shown for the improvement of our borough, and I have been very pleased to have been part of this. 

"I am personally particularly proud of our many achievements since 2021, despite significant financial and capacity challenges and pressures as a direct result of the pandemic.  

"Our resolve to refer ourselves to, and work with, the Regulator of Social Housing, with urgency, to address the shortcomings we discovered in relation to the health and safety of council tenants, was particularly salient for me. 

"We also radically improved the way we allocate council homes in Ealing, brought our Housing Revenue Account back onto a stable footing, all without losing sight of our ambition to build the genuinely affordable homes that Ealing residents so desperately need.  

"I know that Councillor Mahfouz will take up the challenges of this role with energy and commitment, and I look forward to supporting him – and you – as he does so." 

Raza said: "As the first Muslim Ealing cabinet member, it has been an honour and a privilege to serve the borough of Ealing as cabinet member for tackling inequality.  

"I am very proud to have delivered on our Safer Ealing for Women listening exercise, and the work we have done to support refugees who have chosen to make Ealing their home. 

"We have been exemplary in terms of keeping our young people out of the criminal justice system, and we are well on the way to delivering on the demands of the Ealing Race Equality Commission. I would also like to thank council officers for their dedication and hard work." 

Wall and Raza have been replaced by Councillor Louise Brett of North Hanwell and will take on the role of cabinet member for decent living incomes and Councillor Polly Knewstub of Hanwell Broadway who will take over the role of thriving communities. 

Brett said: "The opportunity to earn a decent living income is the foundation for so much in life, and yet too many of our residents face precarious working conditions and multiple barriers to entering the workforce. 

"I'd like to thank Councillor Mason for asking me to become part of his cabinet. I'm excited to hit the ground running and continue Councillor Mahfouz's work to create 10,000 new, good jobs in Ealing by 2026, to support those residents facing the toughest barriers to employment and continue to enforce against businesses who break the rules." 

Knewstub said: "I'm thrilled to be taking on the thriving communities brief as a member of Councillor Mason's cabinet.  

"Building on Councillor Anand's achievements over the last two years, I look forward to progressing our work to empower local communities to be part of the decisions that affect them through Town Forums, and to re-designing and delivering a new, state-of-the-art leisure centre at Gurnell." 

The Ealing Council Cabinet is now: Peter Mason (leader), Deirdre Costigan (deputy leader and climate action), Louise Brett (decent living incomes), Steve Donnelly (inclusive economy), Bassam Mahfouz (genuinely affordable and safe homes), Shital Manro (good growth and new homes), Polly Knewstub (thriving communities), Kamaljit Nagpal (a fairer start), Jasbir Anand (tackling inequality), and Josh Blacker (healthy lives).