Tristan John Osborne is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham and Aylesford since 2024.
Osborne is a native of the Medway area in Kent and grew up in Rochester.[1][2] He attended St William of Perth Catholic Primary School in Rochester before receiving a scholarship to the private King's School, Rochester due to being a chorister at Rochester Cathedral.[1] He has Bachelor of Science degree in natural sciences (2004) and a Master of Arts degree in business management (2006) from College of St Hild and St Bede, part of Durham University.[1][3] Osborne, who is gay, was an LGBT activist at university.[1][4][5]
After leaving university Osborne worked for a banking start-up specialising in financial risk from July 2006 to November 2013 and for a consultancy firm advising political parties about businesses regulation from December 2013 to July 2016.[1] Whilst working in London he was a special constable with the Metropolitan Police in Greenwich and Charlton.[6][7] Osborne then moved back to the Medway area and obtained a teaching qualification in geography from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2017.[1] He was a geography teacher at Strood Academy from July 2017 to August 2023 and Stone Lodge School from August 2023 to July 2024.[1]
Osborne contested 2007 local elections in the Medway as one of the Labour Party candidates in the three-member Strood North Ward but was not elected.[8] He contested the 2011 local elections in Medway as one of the Labour Party candidates in the three-member Luton and Wayfield Ward and was elected.[9][10] He was re-elected at the 2015 and 2019 local elections.[9] At the 2023 local elections he was elected from the three-member Rochester East and Warren Wood Ward.[11][12] At the election Labour gained control of Medway Council and Osborne was appointed Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Enforcement.[1][13]
Osborne contested the 2015 general election as the Labour Party candidate in Chatham and Aylesford but was defeated by Conservative incumbent Tracey Crouch.[1][14] He contested the 2016 police and crime commissioner elections as the Labour Party candidate in Kent but was defeated by Conservative Matthew Scott.[15][16]
Osborne contested the 2024 general election Labour Party candidate in Chatham and Aylesford and was elected with a majority of 1,998.[17][18]
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