Sadik Al-Hassan | |
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 Official portrait, 2024. | |
| Member of Parliament for North Somerset | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Liam Fox |
| Majority | 639 (1.2%) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Bath |
Sadik Adam Al-Hassan is a British Labour Party politician and pharmacist who has been the Member of Parliament for North Somerset since 2024. He gained the seat from Liam Fox,a Conservative. [1] Al-Hassan previously worked in pharmacy for nearly two decades.
Al-Hassan was born to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother. [2] His father,a civil servant,arrived in Britain in the 1970s. [3] Al-Hassan attended Calday Grange Grammar School in the Wirral. He graduated from the University of Bath in 2007. [4]
Al-Hassan was a store manager at Boots in Wirral for three years and worked at Well Pharmacy for over seven years as an area operations manager and a branch manager. At time of election,he worked in Cribbs Causeway as the superintendent pharmacist of the online PillTime,which has about 200,000 nominated patients all around the UK. [5] [6]
Al-Hassan was 6th on Labour's list of candidates for the South West England region in the 2019 European Parliament elections and was not elected. [7]
He was selected as Labour's candidate for North Somerset in the 2024 general election and ran on a platform of rebuilding the NHS. He also expressed concern over pharmacies closing in the local area. [8] He defeated the incumbent Conservative Party candidate Liam Fox,who had been the MP for the area (North Somserset and previously Woodspring) for three decades. [9]
In November 2024,he joined a group of fellow medic MPs to call for Parliament to back assisted dying legislation. [10]
Married with 2 children,Al-Hassan is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in the last election. As of 2024,he has lived in Emersons Green for ten years. [11] [12]
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