Andy Sawford | |
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Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government | |
In office 7 October 2013 –8 May 2015 | |
Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Helen Jones |
Succeeded by | Steve Reed |
Member of Parliament for Corby | |
In office 15 November 2012 –30 March 2015 | |
Preceded by | Louise Mensch |
Succeeded by | Tom Pursglove |
Personal details | |
Born | Desborough,Northamptonshire | 15 March 1976
Political party | Labour and Co-operative |
Parent | Phil Sawford (father) |
Alma mater | Durham University |
Andrew Sawford (born 15 March 1976) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby from 2012 to 2015. [1] [2] A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he was a Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government from 2013 to 2015.
Sawford was born in Desborough,Northamptonshire on 15 March 1976 to Phil and Rosemary Sawford. [3] He was educated at a comprehensive school. He went on to study history at Durham University and graduated in 1997. [4]
Following university,Sawford worked in Parliament for the then-Corby MP Phil Hope. [4] He was a councillor and Cabinet Member on Dartford Borough Council in Kent from 1999 to 2003 representing Littlebrook Ward. [5] Sawford also worked for the Local Government Association (LGA). [6]
From 2003 to 2007,Sawford was director of Connect Public Affairs [7] advising local authorities and organisations such as the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) and the Association of Police Authorities (APA). [8] He was from 2008 to 2012 chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU),a London-based thinktank and registered charity. [9]
In October 2011,Sawford was selected to contest the marginal Corby constituency for Labour at the next general election. [9] Following the resignation of incumbent Conservative Louise Mensch in 2012,he won Corby at the subsequent by-election which became the first Labour by-election gain since 1997.
Sawford sat on the Communities and Local Government Committee from 2012 to 2013. [10] He was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government,responsible for local government,in October 2013.
He proposed a bill under the Ten Minute Rule that would allow the public sector to bid against private sector providers for control over rail franchises. [11] Sawford also proposed a Private Member's Bill on zero hours contracts. [12]
Sawford was defeated by Conservative Tom Pursglove at the 2015 general election,who won with a similar vote margin to Mensch's result in 2010.
After Parliament,Sawford became chief executive of Connect Communications, [13] and later led a management buy-out to take ownership of the business. [14] In June 2019 it was announced that Connect had acquired Stratagem,a Belfast-based public affairs agency. [15] He also serves on the board of the Public Relations and Communications Association, [16] and is a governor of the Kettering Buccleuch Academy. [17]
His father,Phil Sawford,served as Labour MP for Kettering,a neighbouring constituency to Corby,from 1997 to 2005. [18]
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