Parliamentary career
He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. [3]
At the 1997 general election,Stringer was elected to Parliament as MP for Manchester Blackley with 70% of the vote and a majority of 19,588. [4]
Stringer was a member of the Environment,Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee until 1999. He then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office until 2001.
At the 2001 general election,Stringer was re-elected as MP for Manchester Blackley with a decreased vote share of 68.9% and a decreased majority of 14,464. [5] He was again re-elected at the 2005 general election with a decreased vote share of 62.3% and a decreased majority of 12,027. [6]
After a spell on the back benches and as a government whip,he spent the last six years of the Labour Government as a member of the Transport Select Committee. He campaigned against a proposed Congestion Charge in Greater Manchester. [7]
In September 2008,Stringer became the first Labour MP to publicly call for Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister. [8]
Prior to the 2010 general election,Stringer's constituency of Manchester Blackley was abolished,and replaced with Blackley and Broughton. At the 2010 general election,Stringer was elected to Parliament as MP for Blackley and Broughton with 54.3% of the vote and a majority of 12,303. [9]
In January 2011,he called for Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson,a lifelong Labour voter and vocal supporter of the party at elections,to be given a seat in the House of Lords. [10]
He was a critic of former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband,whom he accused in May 2014 of running an "unforgivably unprofessional" campaign, [11] and referred to as "not an asset on the doorsteps" when campaigning. [12]
At the 2015 general election,Stringer was re-elected as MP for Blackley and Broughton with an increased vote share of 61.9% and an increased majority of 16,874. [13] [14]
At the snap 2017 general election,Stringer was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 70.5% and an increased majority of 19,601. [7]
Stringer was again re-elected at the 2019 general election,with a decreased vote share of 61.9% and a decreased majority of 14,402. [15]
As a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,Stringer's constituency of Blackley and Broughton was abolished,and replaced with Blackley and Middleton South. In June 2024,Stringer was selected as the Labour candidate for Blackley and Middleton South,and he was duly elected at the 2024 general election with a decreased majority of 10,220. [16]
Political Views
Controversies on Dyslexia
In January 2009,Stringer denied the existence of dyslexia,calling it "a cruel fiction" invented by "the education establishment" to divert blame for illiteracy from "their eclectic and incomplete methods for instruction". [17] The Dyslexia Action charity and the British Dyslexia Association criticised Stringer's claims. [18]
Immigration
In February 2014,Stringer,along with 98 others,voted for the Dominic Raab amendment to the Immigration Bill,aimed at preventing foreign criminals using European Human Rights Law in deportation cases. [27] [28]
Brexit
Stringer has established a reputation as a prominent Eurosceptic in the Labour Party who favoured a referendum on the EU. He called for Britain to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum,describing the EU as a barrier to a progressive government. [29]
On 17 July 2018,a vote was held on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the customs union in the event of a no deal Brexit. Frank Field,Kate Hoey,John Mann and Stringer were the only Labour MPs to oppose the amendment,which was voted down by 307 votes to 301. [30]
COVID-19
On 21 October 2020,during the COVID-19 pandemic,Stringer was the only Labour MP to vote against implementing stricter lockdown in the North West of England,an area that includes his own constituency in Greater Manchester. [31]
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