Ivan Lewis is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019,initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years,making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997,Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012,and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.
Manchester Gorton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was the safest Labour seat in Greater Manchester by numerical majority and one of the safest in the country.
Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party,Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
Gorton North is a defunct local government ward in the Gorton area of the City of Manchester. The population of Gorton North ward at the 2011 census was 16,440. Under boundary changes by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) the ward was abolished and replaced with the new electoral ward Gorton and Abbey Hey from May 2018.
Gorton South is a defunct Local Government ward in the Gorton area of the City of Manchester. The population of Gorton South ward at the 2011 census was 19,615. Under boundary changes by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) the ward was abolished and replaced with the new electoral ward Gorton and Abbey Hey from May 2018.
Manchester Rusholme was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rusholme district of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post system.
Wesley Streeting is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care since 2021,and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford North since 2015.
Rushanara Ali is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she was the first British Bangladeshi elected to Parliament.
Heidi Alexander is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Labour Party,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018.
Rupa Asha Huq is a British Labour MP,columnist and academic. Elected as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton at the 2015 general election,she was formerly a senior lecturer in sociology at Kingston University.
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. Elected as a member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 general election,he became Father of the House in 2015 and served until his death in 2017.
Seb Dance,born 1 December 1981,is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the London region from 2014 to 2020 and since January 2022 serves as Deputy Mayor of London for transport.
The Greater Manchester Labour Party mayoral selection of 2016 was the process by which the Labour Party selected its candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester,to stand in the mayoral election on 4 May 2017. On 9 August 2016,The Labour Party announced that Andy Burnham had won the candidacy.
Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan is a British politician and medical doctor serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting since 2016. A member of the Labour Party,she attended shadow cabinet as Shadow Minister for Mental Health from 2020 to 2023.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Manchester Gorton was scheduled to take place on 4 May 2017,following the death of the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP),Sir Gerald Kaufman. It was cancelled on 20 April following the announcement of the 2017 general election. At the general election in June,most of the candidates who were due to stand in the by-election contested the seat,and the Labour candidate,Afzal Khan,retained the seat for his party with a large majority.
Wajid Iltaf Khan,Baron Khan of Burnley,is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2017 to 2019 and as Mayor of Burnley from 2020 to 2021.
Gorton and Abbey Hey is an electoral ward of Manchester,England created by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) from the previous electoral wards of Gorton North and Gorton South for the local elections 2018.
The Labour Muslim Network is a British campaign group associated with the Labour Party,focused on Muslim matters and getting Muslims into benefits. Labour MP Afzal Khan is the parliamentary chair for the group. The purpose of the group is to promote Muslim engagement and representation in the Labour Party,conduct political training and development activities,and lead on political campaigns. It is the largest Muslim group of Labour members and supporters.
