James Asser

James Edward Asser is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament.

Asser studied at the University of Central England (later re-named Birmingham City University) and was involved in its student union. He was later the National Union of Students' Vice-President of Welfare (1998 – 2000) and was later co-chair of LGBT+ Labour. In 2010, he and a group of LGBT+ Labour members were denied service in a London pub in an allegedly homophobic incident that year.

He was the chair of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 2023 until July 2024. He was also councillor in Beckton, London Borough of Newham since 2018 and served as Deputy Mayor since 2022.

He has been the Member of Parliament for West Ham and Beckton a member of the Labour Party since 2024.