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Sadik Al-Hassan
MP
Official portrait, 2024.
Member of Parliament
for North Somerset
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byLiam Fox
Majority639 (1.2%)
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Children2
Alma materUniversity 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.

Early life and career

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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]

Political career

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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]

Personal life

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Somerset North | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ Trainis, Neil (15 November 2024). "Interview: Sadik Al-Hassan". Independent Community Pharmacist. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  3. ^ Simson, Pete (10 October 2024). "Net zero migration a 'gimmick' says new Labour MP". BBC News. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Sadik Al-Hassan MP". PolicyMogul. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ^ Trainis, Neil (11 April 2024). "Pharmacist shortlisted as Labour candidate for general election". Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Labour's Sadik Al-Hassan defeats Liam Fox in North Somerset - ending 100 years of Tory rule". ITV News. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Well pharmacist: Patients 'spurred me on' to stand in EU elections". C+D. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  8. ^ Trainis, Neil (11 April 2024). "Pharmacist shortlisted as Labour candidate for general election". Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  9. ^ Harcombe, Chloe. "General election 2024: Key winners in the West". BBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Medic MPs urge support for assisted dying bill". BBC News. 1 November 2024.
  11. ^ Wimperis, John (2 July 2024). "Interview: North Somerset Labour candidate Sadik Al-Hassan". North Somerset Times. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Mixed fortunes for councillors". Downend Voice. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
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