Tony Lloyd

Tony Lloyd MP
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 December 2006
Leader	Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) Gordon Brown Tony Blair
Preceded by	Ann Clwyd
Member of Parliament for Manchester Central
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Bob Litherland
Majority	10,430 (26.1%)
Member of Parliament for Stretford
In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997
Preceded by	Winston Churchill Jr.
Succeeded by	Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born	25 February 1950 (1950-02-25) Trafford, Lancashire, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Judith Ann Tear
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Website	www.tonylloydmp.co.uk

Anthony Joseph 'Tony' Lloyd (born 25 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 1997.

Early life

He went to Stretford Grammar School for Boys on Great Stone Road in Stretford and the University of Nottingham gaining a BSc in Maths in 1972. Later he went to Manchester Business School studying for an MBA, becoming a university lecturer in Business Studies at the University of Salford.

Political career

Lloyd was first elected in a political capacity when he successfully contested the 1979 Trafford Council elections, standing in Clifford ward of Old Trafford.

Following this, was first returned to the British House of Commons at the 1983 general election, as Member of Parliament for Stretford. When constituency boundaries were revised for the 1997 general election, he transferred to the Manchester Central constituency, where he has been returned at subsequent elections.

When Labour was returned to office in 1997 under Tony Blair, Lloyd was appointed a junior minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under Robin Cook, but left the Government in the reshuffle in 1999. He remains a backbencher.

Since leaving the Government, his voting record shows a strong left-wing inclination, with him appearing as a rebel teller on several notable occasions. Lloyd joined the considerable number of Labour MPs in choosing to vote against government policy regarding the Iraq War, following this he sided with the sizable number of Labour MPs who rebelled against government policy to detain terror suspects for 90 days without trial, further, in 2007 Lloyd also voted against the renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System. Lloyd has also allied himself with other notable left wing causes^{[citation needed]}, voting against government policy to introduce student tuition fees.

However, Lloyd has voted for Identity Cards, the National Identity Register and the 3rd runway at Heathrow.

He was also a Vice-President of the Western European Union and leader of the British Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is currently the leader of the British Delegation to the OSCE, which deals with a wide-range of security related issues such as democratisation, election monitoring, human rights, arms control, economic and environmental security and security building. He is Chair of the Trade Union Group of Labour MPs. The purpose of the Group is to liaise between the Trade Unions and the Government, especially Trade Unions affiliated to the Labour Party.

On 5 December 2006 he became chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, which consists of all Labour MPs, both government and backbench MPs, defeating incumbent Ann Clwyd who was perceived to be too close to Blair [1]. He chairs the Parliamentary Committee where the Prime Minister and senior government ministers meet with elected representatives of backbench MPs.

Lloyd contributed chapters about John Robert Clynes and George Kelley, Labour Members of Parliament for Manchester elected in 1906, to Men Who Made Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Diane Hayter.

Lloyd contributed to the book What Next for Labour? Ideas for a new generation in September 2011, his piece was entitled In Search of Labour's Big Idea.

On 15th February 2012 he announced that he was to stand down as an MP and stand as the elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester.

Personal life

He married Judith Ann Tear on 21 September 1974 in Leicester. They have three daughters and a son.

External links

• Tony Lloyd MP official constituency site
• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Winston Churchill	Member of Parliament for Stretford 1983–1997	Constituency abolished
Preceded by Bob Litherland	Member of Parliament for Manchester Central 1997–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Ann Clwyd	Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party 2006–present	Incumbent