1. Graham Stringer has served as the area's MP continuously since 1997, having previously represented the analoguous predecessor constituencies of Manchester Blackley, and Blackley and Broughton.
20 Facts About Graham Stringer
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Graham Stringer was Leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996 and served as chair of Manchester Airport from 1996 to 1997.
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Graham Stringer was born on 17 February 1950 in Manchester.
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Graham Stringer attended Christ Church Primary School in Beswick and Openshaw Technical High School for Boys in Openshaw.
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Graham Stringer became a local councillor in Manchester in 1979, and was Manchester City Council leader from 1984 to 1996.
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Graham Stringer was chair of Manchester Airport from 1996 to 1997.
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Graham Stringer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Graham Stringer was a member of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee until 1999.
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Graham Stringer then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office until 2001.
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Graham Stringer campaigned against a proposed Congestion Charge in Greater Manchester.
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In September 2008, Graham Stringer became the first Labour MP to publicly call for Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister.
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Graham Stringer was a critic of former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, whom he accused in May 2014 of running an "unforgivably unprofessional" campaign, and referred to as "not an asset on the doorsteps" when campaigning.
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In June 2024, Graham Stringer was selected as the Labour candidate for Blackley and Middleton South, and he was duly elected at the 2024 general election with a decreased majority of 10,220.
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Graham Stringer is a trustee of The Global Warming Policy Foundation, an organisation that promotes climate change denialism.
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Graham Stringer was a member of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee from 2013 to 2015.
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In 2014, Graham Stringer was one of two MPs on the committee to vote against the acceptance of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of global warming.
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Graham Stringer has established a reputation as a prominent Eurosceptic in the Labour Party who favoured a referendum on the EU.
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Graham Stringer called for Britain to leave the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum, describing the EU as a barrier to a progressive government.
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Frank Field, Kate Hoey, John Mann and Graham Stringer were the only Labour MPs to oppose the amendment, which was voted down by 307 votes to 301.
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On 21 October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Graham Stringer was the only Labour MP to vote against implementing stricter lockdown in the North West of England, an area that includes his own constituency in Greater Manchester.