Ian Levy | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2019 | |
Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley | |
In office 12 December 2019 –30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Ronnie Campbell |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 February 1966 |
Political party | Conservative |
Website | www |
Ian Levy (born 14 February 1966) [1] is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Blyth Valley from the 2019 general election until the seat's abolition in 2024. He is the first Conservative to represent Blyth Valley since the constituency was created in 1950. Ian Levy has served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) in the Ministry of Defence since 2022. Before this Levy was a PPS in the Cabinet Office.
Levy is of Jewish descent. [2] He left school at the age of 16 to become a grave digger. [3] [4] Prior to his election,Levy had worked as a healthcare assistant on an inpatient mental health rehabilitation ward in St Nicholas Hospital,Newcastle upon Tyne for over 28 years. [5]
He first contested the Blyth Valley constituency at the 2017 general election,in which incumbent Labour MP Ronnie Campbell held his seat with a majority of 7,915. Levy was subsequently elected for the constituency at the 2019 general election with a majority of 712 votes over Labour candidate Susan Dungworth. [6] He was the first Conservative to represent the constituency since its creation in 1950. [7] It had previously been a safe Labour seat. [8] He had campaigned on returning passenger railway services to the area and for a relief road in Blyth,which is supported by Transport for the North and other major highways improvements. [9] [10] Blyth's railway station had closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching cuts. [11] After his election,he was accused of misleading the public,when the Nursing Times reported his social media posts from the campaign,in which he said he had worked as a mental health nurse. The posts were later amended. Cumbria,Northumberland,Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust confirmed he had worked as a healthcare assistant. The term "nurse" is not legally protected so his posts had not violated the Nurses Registration Act 1919. [5] [12]
Levy won the Newcomer of the Year award at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards. [13]
In October 2020,Levy voted against a Labour motion to extend free school meals for eligible children until Easter 2021. He was criticised for this on social media. Levy also alleged that this included threats. [14] [15] In February 2023,a man was given a restraining order for harassing Levy between May and August 2022. [16]
Levy was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) in the Cabinet Office in April 2022. [17] He supported Boris Johnson's bid to return as PM in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. [18] Later in the year,Levy became a PPS in the Ministry of Defence. [19]
Blyth Valley was abolished as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. Levy was selected as the Conservative candidate for the new seat of Cramlington and Killingworth in April 2023. [20]
Levy is married and has two children. [4] In January 2024,his wife Maureen Levy was selected as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Blyth and Ashington in the 2024 general election. [21]
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