Patrick Hurley (British politician)

Patrick Hurley
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Southport
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byDamien Moore
Majority5,789 (12.9%)
Personal details
Born1976 or 1977 (age 47–48)[1]
Prescot, England
Political partyLabour
Websitepatrickhurley.uk

Patrick Brian Hurley is a British Labour Party politician who was elected the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southport at the 2024 general election.[2]

Hurley is the first Labour MP for Southport, having served as a councillor for Mossley Hill on Liverpool City Council from 2011 to 2023.[3]

Hurley is from Prescot, Knowsley.[3] He previously stood for the newly-created Waterfront South ward in the council elections on 4 May 2023, but was not elected.[4][3]

Hurley was Member of Parliament for Southport immediately after the 2024 Southport stabbing. Following riots in Southport on the night of 30 July 2024, Hurley appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on the morning of 31 July 2024, where he said that the rioters were not local residents, but "were thugs who'd got the train in" and were "utterly disrespecting the families of the dead and injured children, and utterly disrespecting the town".[5]

In October 2024, he launched what he described as a "whimsical" campaign to reduce the price of Freddo chocolate bars as a way to engage young people in politics and discussions about the cost of living crisis.[6]

References

  1. ^ Macpherson, Jon; Thorp, Liam (2024-04-16). "Man, 47, needed life-saving surgery hours after waking up with 'indigestion'". Lancs Live. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  2. ^ Hamilton, Clare; Humphries, Jonny (5 July 2024). "Southport taken by Labour in historic victory". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Thorp, Liam; Jessett, Elliot (5 July 2024). "Southport's new Labour MP Patrick Hurley". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Election Results for Waterfront South, 4 May 2023". Liverpool City Council. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. ^ Amos, Owen, ed. (31 July 2024). "Out of town thugs disrespected grieving families, MP says". BBC news.
  6. ^ "MP launches campaign to cut price of Freddo chocolate bar to 5p". BBC News. 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
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