In January 2016, she was appointed shadow Arts and Culture Minist She supports mandatory graphic health warnings on alcoholic drinks, akin to those on cigarette packaging, and has called for parliamentary debate to raise awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer.Debbonaire supports the decriminalisation and regulation of drugs such as In August 2016, a student at the University of Bristol was investigated after telling Debbonaire to "get in the sea", an In November 2017, a constituent who harassed Debbonaire was jailed for 20 weeks after leaving multiple "upsetting and disturbing" racially-offensive answerphone messages for a senior case worker.Debbonaire is married to Kevin Walton, an opera singer, former actor and a director of Ark Stichting, an Amsterdam charity that works with children with Since her breast cancer treatment, during which time she read about the links between cancer and alcohol, Debbonaire is Debbonaire cites music, knitting and observing space as her hobbies. Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire is a British Labour Party politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing since 2020. In January 2016, she was appointed shadow Arts and Culture Minister until resigning on 27 June 2016 (among many others) because of her lack of confidence in the Labour Party Leader, Before becoming an MP, she performed professionally as a She has co-authored two books, and a number of papers, about domestic violence.During her treatment period she was appointed as Shadow Arts and Culture Minister by Debbonaire resigned from her role on 27 June 2016 following a series of other resignations, saying that she did not believe Corbyn was the right person to lead the Labour Party into the next election.On 15 September 2017, Debbonaire held what is thought to be the UK's first constituency surgery specifically for people on the autism spectrum.In the same month, she urged local constituency members discontented about her resignation to stop planning her deselection, which she claimed was "a catastrophic waste of time".Debbonaire describes herself as a "northern European socialist - a democratic socialist". Shortly after being elected, Debbonaire was diagnosed with breast cancer, and did not attend a parliamentary vote from June 2015 until March 2016. She supports "fettered capitalism".Debbonaire opposes the decriminalisation of prostitutionOn 27 January 2017, Debbonaire stated that she would vote against triggering In December 2017, Debbonaire criticised the quality of the Brexit impact papers published by In July 2018, Debbonaire said that she did not support a referendum on the Debbonaire's treatment for breast cancer led her to support greater regulation of alcohol. She was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol West at the 2015 general election, when she defeated the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams.