Mandu Reid

Reid was the party's candidate for the 2021 London mayoral election, having replaced Sue Black, who had to withdraw for health reasons. She came tenth and lost her deposit.

In April 2019, Reid took over the interim leadership of WEP, and was confirmed as party leader in January 2020. She has been described as "the first black, bisexual leader of a political party in the UK".

Reid founded The Cup Effect in 2015, a period poverty charity which campaigns donates menstrual cups to women and girls struggling with period poverty in the UK and East Africa.

Reid joined the Labour Party in 2010, but later moved to the Women's Equality Party (WEP) in 2018. As a member of WEP, Reid stood in the 2018 Lewisham East by-election, coming fifth and losing her deposit. Despite not being a parent, Reid supports equal parenting policies and flexible working, and has been party spokesperson on equal parenting since 2018. Reid has spoken publicly about her abortion, which was what sparked her interest in equal parenting policies and promoted her to pursue a career in politics. Talking about her abortion, she said:

Reid's mother is Black Malawi and her father is White British. Her parents met while her father was teaching English in Malawi, where Reid was born. The family moved to the United Kingdom in 1982, but subsequently lived in Somalia and Eswatini (also known as Swaziland), before returning to the UK, where Reid attended sixth form. Concerning her growing up in Eswatini, Reid said that being a mixed-race child led to awareness in childhood of injustice and prejudice.

Mandu Reid (born 1981) is the leader of the British Women's Equality Party (WEP).