Patrick Hurley | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
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Member of Parliament for Southport | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Damien Moore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1976 or 1977 (age 47–48)
[1] Prescot, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Website | patrickhurley.uk |
Patrick Hurley is a British Labour Party politician who was elected the Member of Parliament (MP) for Southport at the 2024 general election. [2] He is from Prescot, Knowsley. From 2011 to 2023, he served as councillor for Mossley Hill on Liverpool City Council. [3]
Hurley is the first Labour politician to win the Southport seat, and the 2024 election marked the first time Labour has held every seat in Merseyside.
There were riots in Southport on the night of 30/31 July 2024 in response to an incident the previous day where eleven children and two adults were stabbed by a man. Hurley appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme the next morning, 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". [4] The rioters had broken windows of Southport Mosque; Hurley told the Today programme that people "were using the horrific incident on Monday, the deaths of three little kiddies, for their own political purposes". [5]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hamilton, Clare; Humphries, Jonny (2024-07-05). "Southport taken by Labour in historic victory". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Thorp, Liam; Jessett, Elliot (2024-07-05). "Southport's new Labour MP Patrick Hurley". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Amos, Owen, ed. (31 July 2024). "Out of town thugs disrespected grieving families, MP says". BBC news.
- ^ Amos, Owen, ed. (31 July 2024). "'Beered-up thugs' attacked mosque - MP". BBC news.
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Official website
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
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