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Lee Barron | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Pursglove |
| Majority | 6,331 (12.8%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
Lee Jason Barron [1] is a trade unionist and British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby and East Northamptonshire since 2024. [2]
Lee was raised in a working-class family in Far Cotton,Northampton,and went to Delapre Primary School. [3]
Lee left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship at Royal Mail as a postal worker. [3] He later became the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) Midlands Regional Secretary. [4]
After Lee’s time working for the CWU,he became the Midlands Regional Secretary for the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing over 1 million workers. [3] [4]
Lee has also been a Northampton magistrate for over 20 years. [3] [5]
Barron is a former Northampton borough councillor and during this time was leader of the local Labour group. [3]
In 2012,Barron was selected as the Labour candidate for the Northamptonshire Police,Fire and Crime Commissioner election,but stood down after he was caught out by a rule change that made him and many other candidates ineligible. [3] [5]
On 4 July 2024,Barron was elected as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire,turning the incumbent Conservative Tom Pursglove’s 10,268 [6] majority into his own 6,331 majority. [7] [8] [9]
On 11 September 2024,Barron was elected as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Modernising Employment. [10]
In November 2024,Barron voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,which proposes to legalise assisted suicide. [11]
In a BBC radio debate before his election,Barron said he had always been a “Mod never a Rocker”and rides a "Vespa with 12 mirrors,eight spotlamps and continental whitewall tyres". [12]
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