Andrew Gwynne
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| Born | 4 June 1974 | |||||||||||
| Member of | Home Affairs Select Committee, Labour Friends of Israel | |||||||||||
Former Chair of Labour Friends of Israel
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Andrew Gwynne is a Labour Party politician and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Denton and Reddish since the 2005 General Election. He was re-elected in 2015 and again in 2017, with an increased majority of 14,077 (63.5% share of the vote).[1]
Gwynne was appointed as Shadow Minister without Portfolio by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in October 2016 and then became Campaigns and Elections Chair in February 2017 before being appointed as the new Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in June following the UK/2017 General Election.[2]
Following the 2017 general election, Gwynne retained his role as the Labour Party’s Co-National Campaign Coordinator, and was promoted to become Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, replacing Grahame Morris.
He was again re-elected in 2019 with a much reduced majority of 6,175, (50.06% share of the vote). Only 58.3% of the electorate turned out to vote in the Denton and Reddish constituency (ranked 53rd lowest turnout of 650 constituencies).[3] In 2020, one day after Sir Keir Starmer was elected as the new Labour leader, he resigned from his position as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.
He is a member (and former Chair) of Labour Friends of Israel, of Unite Trade Union, the Co-operative Party and the Christian Socialist Movement.[4]
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