Andy Slaughter MP | |||||||||||||
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Member of Parliament for Hammersmith and Chiswick Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush (2005–2010) Hammersmith (2010–2024) | |||||||||||||
Assumed office 5 May 2005 | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Clive Soley | ||||||||||||
Majority | 15,290 (33.2%) | ||||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||||
Born | Andrew Francis Slaughter 29 September 1960 Hammersmith,London,England | ||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Exeter (LLB) | ||||||||||||
Website | andyslaughter | ||||||||||||
Andrew Francis Slaughter (born 29 September 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who is currently serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith and Chiswick,and before that,Hammersmith and Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush,since 2005. Prior to his election to Parliament,he had served as Leader of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
In the 2024 general election,Slaughter stood in the new seat of Hammersmith and Chiswick. [1]
Slaughter was born on 29 September 1960. He studied at the University of Exeter,College of Law,and the Inns of Court School of Law. [2]
Slaughter was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1993,thereby qualifying to practice as a barrister. He was a barrister with Bridewell Chambers from 1993 to 2006,before joining Lamb Chambers in 2006. [2]
He stood at the Uxbridge by-election in July 1997,following the unexpected death seven days after the 1997 general election of incumbent Sir Michael Shersby. The seat,which had a small Conservative majority,was held for the Conservatives by John Randall.
At the 2005 general election,Slaughter was elected as the member of parliament for Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush in London,retaining the seat for Labour following the retirement of his predecessor,Clive Soley.
Slaughter is currently a member of the Justice Select Committee. He was a member of the Communities and Local Government Select Committee in 2009–10 and in 2010 of the London Regional Select Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights. Previously he was member of the Regulatory Reform Select Committee (2005–07) and Children,Schools and Families Select Committee (2007–09).[ citation needed ]
Slaughter's interests include the Middle East and particularly Palestine. He is Secretary of the Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East. His interests are reflected in the other APPGs of which he is a member,including Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf,Fire Safety and Rescue,Gypsies,Travellers and Roma,Heathrow,and Legal Aid.[ citation needed ]
He has spoken in the House of Commons on fire safety,housing,legal aid,local government,education and climate change issues.[ citation needed ]
Slaughter has campaigned against Heathrow expansion. He also played a part in successful local campaigns against the planned demolition of social housing by the Conservative Council in his constituency and the planned demolition of Charing Cross Hospital.[ citation needed ]
The Ealing,Acton and Shepherd's Bush constituency underwent a boundary change for the 2010 general election,and on 30 November 2006,the new Hammersmith Constituency Labour Party selected Slaughter as the Labour candidate for the new Hammersmith seat which he won in the 2010 general election with an increased majority.
He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Stephen Ladyman MP,Minister of State for the Department for Transport and served from November 2005 to June 2007. In June 2007,he was appointed PPS to Lord Malloch-Brown,Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,and also served as PPS to Lord Digby Jones,Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Business,Enterprise and Regulatory Reform,and between July 2007 and October 2008.
On 27 January 2009,he resigned his PPS role as he opposed the Government's plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. [3]
In October 2010,Slaughter was invited to join the Labour frontbench as Shadow Justice Minister [4] with responsibility for courts and tribunals,criminal law,freedom of information,the legal profession,civil justice reform and Legal Aid.[ citation needed ] Slaughter served as the lead shadow minister opposing the Legal Aid,Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and the Justice and Security Act 2012. He resigned in June 2016,citing concerns over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. [5] He supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.[ citation needed ]
Slaughter was appointed as Shadow Minister for Housing in October 2016, [6] however he was sacked from the frontbench in June 2017 after he voted in favour of an amendment to the Queen's Speech which called on the UK to remain in the European Single Market,in defiance of the Labour whip. [7]
In the November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle,he became the new Shadow Solicitor General.
On 15 November 2023,Slaughter voted for an SNP amendment to the King's Speech,demanding an immediate Ceasefire in Gaza,contrary to the Labour Party's official stance to support HM Government line on the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict. He was dismissed by Sir Keir Starmer from his position as Shadow Solicitor General. [8]
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