David Burton-Sampson | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Southend West and Leigh | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Anna Firth |
Majority | 1,949 (4.1%) |
Personal details | |
Political party | Labour |
David Edmund Burton-Sampson [1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Southend West and Leigh since 2024. [2]
Burton-Sampson was deputy leader of the Labour Group on Basildon council. [3]
He unseated the Conservative MP Anna Firth,who had won the seat in an uncontested by-election after the murder of longtime MP Sir David Amess in October 2021.
In November 2024,Burton-Sampson voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,which proposes to legalise assisted suicide. [4]