Lee Barron (politician)
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Lee Barron | |
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| File:Official portrait of Lee Barron MP crop 2.jpg Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Pursglove |
| Majority | 6,331 (12.8%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
Lee Jason Barron[1] is a trade unionist and British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby and East Northamptonshire since 2024.[2]
Early life and career
Lee was raised in a working-class family in Far Cotton, Northampton, and went to Delapre Primary School.[3] Lee left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship at Royal Mail as a postal worker.[3] He later became the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) Midlands Regional Secretary.[4] After Lee’s time working for the CWU, he became the Midlands Regional Secretary for the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing over 1 million workers.[3][4] Lee has also been a Northampton magistrate for over 20 years.[3][5]
Political career
Barron is a former Northampton borough councillor and during this time was leader of the local Labour group.[3] In 2012, Barron was selected as the Labour candidate for the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner election, but stood down after he was caught out by a rule change that made him and many other candidates ineligible.[3][5] On 4 July 2024, Barron was elected as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, turning the incumbent Conservative Tom Pursglove’s 10,268[6] majority into his own 6,331 majority.[7][8][9] On 11 September 2024, Barron was elected as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Modernising Employment.[10] In November 2024, Barron voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.[11]
Personal life
In a BBC radio debate before his election, Barron said he had always been a “Mod never a Rocker” and rides a "Vespa with 12 mirrors, eight spotlamps and continental whitewall tyres".[12]
References
- ↑ "Members Sworn". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 July 2024.
- ↑ "Corby & East Northants | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "The Labour candidate who wants to turn Corby red again at the next general election". Northamptonshire Telegraph. 14 April 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "New Midlands TUC Regional Secretary appointed". Trade Union Congress.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Labour police commissioner candidate forced to quit over conviction". The Guardian. 31 October 2012.
- ↑ "Election for the constituency of Corby on 12 December 2019". UK Parliament.
- ↑ "Lee Barron". Who Can I Vote For?.
- ↑ "Victorious Lee Barron pledges to 'give the people of Corby and East Northants a voice in Westminster'". Northamptonshire Telegraph.
- ↑ "Corby and East Northamptonshire - General election results 2024". BBC News.
- ↑ "APPG Registers Published in 2024". UK Parliament.
- ↑ "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading". Votes in Parliament. 29 November 2024.
- ↑ "Five takeaways from the Corby and East Northants debate". BBC News. 2024-07-02. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
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