Mike Amesbury

Mike Amesbury
MP
Shadow Minister for Employment
Assumed office
10 July 2018
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Shadowing Alok Sharma
Preceded by Margaret Greenwood
Member of Parliament
for Weaver Vale
Assumed office
9 June 2017
Preceded by Graham Evans
Majority 3,928 (7.8%)
Personal details
Born (1969-05-06) 6 May 1969
Wythenshawe, Manchester
Political party Labour
Website www.mikeamesbury.org

Michael Lee Amesbury[1] (born 6 May 1969[2] in Wythenshawe, Manchester)[3] is an English Labour Party politician and the current Shadow Minister for Employment[4]. He became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Weaver Vale[5] at the general election in June 2017.[6][7]

Education

Mike was educated at Castleford Academy; the University of Bradford; and the University of Central England.[8]

Career

A careers advisor by trade, he previously worked as a manager with the Connexions careers advice service[9]. He also worked as Senior Parliamentary Advisor to Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner[10] and as political advisor and stakeholder manager on Andy Burnham's successful campaign to become Metro Mayor for Greater Manchester[11]. He was a director of City South Manchester Housing Trust, an award-winning social enterprise providing affordable housing in the Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side and Whalley Range areas of south Manchester[12]. He also served as a policy advisor to Tameside Council[13].

Political career

Mike joined the Labour Party as a 17-year-old after moving with his family to Yorkshire, where he says he was politicised by the impact on local families of Margaret Thatcher's political policies and the subsequent miners' strike[14]. He served as a Regional Officer and Fundraising and Events Manager for Labour and was later elected to the party's National Policy Forum (NPF) - the policy making arm of The Labour Party. He became a councilor on Manchester City Council representing Fallowfield from 2006, rising to the position of Executive Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure where he helped bring the National Football Museum to the city,[15] standing down when he was elected to the House of Commons.[16]

He gained the Weaver Vale constituency from the Conservative incumbent Graham Evans in the 2017 general election on a swing of 4.3%. He was named Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Shadow Department for Work and Pensions team in January 2018[17], and in July of the same year was promoted to Shadow Employment Minister[18].

He is a member of the UNISON and GMB trade unions. He campaigned for 'remain' in the 2016 EU membership referendum.

Personal life

Mike is married with a young son, he has a cat called Marx and a dog called Corbyn[19]. He is a Manchester United fan[20] and his interests include Rugby League and Indie music.

References

  1. ↑ "No. 61961". The London Gazette. 19 June 2017. p. 11780.
  2. ↑ "Mike Amesbury MP". myparliament.info. MyParliament. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ↑ https://talk-politics.com/2017/10/07/interview-with-mike-amesbury-mp/
  4. ↑ http://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/16346871.runcorn-mp-mike-amesbury-promoted-to-the-front-bench/
  5. ↑ "Mike Amesbury MP". UK Parliament.
  6. ↑ BBC News: Weaver Vale Parliamentary constituency (accessed 9 June 2017)
  7. ↑ BBC News: Election results 2017: Labour gains Weaver Vale, Warrington South and Crewe and Nantwich (accessed 9 June 2017)
  8. ↑ Amesbury, Mike. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2018 (February 2018 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  9. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/councillor-amesbury-30a02a41/
  10. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/councillor-amesbury-30a02a41/
  11. ↑ https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/info/20016/combined_authority/183/the_mayor_of_greater_manchester/1
  12. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/councillor-amesbury-30a02a41/
  13. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/councillor-amesbury-30a02a41/
  14. ↑ https://talk-politics.com/2017/10/07/interview-with-mike-amesbury-mp/
  15. ↑ Manchester City Council 2006 election results (accessed 10 June 2017)
  16. ↑ http://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/7719/fallowfield_ward_council_by_election_announced
  17. ↑ http://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/15834030.Mike_Amesbury_promoted_to_Labour__39_s_Shadow_team/
  18. ↑ https://labour.org.uk/press/appointments-labours-frontbench/
  19. ↑ https://talk-politics.com/2017/10/07/interview-with-mike-amesbury-mp/
  20. ↑ https://www.talkpolitics.org.uk/blog/2017/10/07/interview-with-mike-amesbury-mp
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Graham Evans		 Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale
2017–present		 Incumbent
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