Liam Conlon | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Beckenham and Penge | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Majority | 12,905 (24.7%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Liam Joseph Conlon |
| Political party | Labour |
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Liam Joseph Conlon [1] is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Beckenham and Penge since July 2024. [2] A member of the Labour Party, he is the chairperson of the Labour Party Irish Society. [3]
In the 2006 Epping Forest District Council election, Conlon was the Labour candidate in Waltham Abbey Paternoster ward. [4]
In 2023, Conlon was selected by party members in Beckenham and Penge constituency to be their candidate, [5] and was elected with a majority of 12,905 over the Conservative candidate. Conlon received a £10,000 donation from Lord Alli towards his election campaign. [6] He is the first Labour MP to cover the whole town of Beckenham.
In August 2024 Conlon received two free tickets worth £1,660 to a Taylor Swift concert Wembley Stadium, at which Swift used a blue light escort reportedly negotiated by his mother, Sue Gray. [7]
Conlon was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Transport following his election.
Conlon is the son of Bill Conlon, a former Country music singer, and his wife, former senior civil servant Sue Gray, who served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Sir Keir Starmer from July to October 2024. [8] He had a hip replacement at the age of 17 due to an accident at the age of 13 where he fractured his hip; for years following the accident he was unable to walk. As a result of this, he is one of a handful of current disabled MPs, and drives an adapted car. [9]
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