Andrew Gwynne

1st term (2005–2010)

At the 2005 general election, Gwynne was elected to Parliament as Labour MP for Denton and Reddish with 57.4% of the vote and a majority of 13,498.^[4]

He was appointed to the House of Commons Procedure Committee in June 2005 and, on 10 November 2005, was promoted to become a Parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Patricia Scotland, as Minister of State for Criminal Justice and Offender Management at the Home Office.^{[citation needed]}

Between July 2007 and June 2009, he served as the Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP.

In June 2009, he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, then Ed Balls.

2nd term (2010–2015)

At the 2010 general election, Gwynne was re-elected as MP for Denton and Reddish with a decreased vote share of 51% and a decreased majority of 9,831.^[5][6]

In October 2010 Gwynne became a Shadow Transport Minister with responsibility for passenger transport. In the Opposition front bench reshuffle of October 2011 he was appointed to the Shadow Health team by Ed Miliband.

3rd term (2015–2017)

At the 2015 general election, Gwynne was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 50.8% and an increased majority of 10,511.^[7][8]

Gwynne took a leading role in November 2015 in organising Labour in the Oldham West and Royton by-election, which took place as a result of the death of Michael Meacher.^[9] Gwynne said he hoped that "I can do the memory of Michael Meacher proud by helping to return a Labour MP for the seat".^[10] The Labour candidate Jim McMahon held the seat with a 10,000-plus majority and increased the party's share of the vote.^[11]

In January 2017 Gwynne was appointed to lead Labour's campaign for the Copeland by-election following the resignation of Jamie Reed.^[12] Gwynne focused the campaign on Conservatives plans to cut services at West Cumberland Hospital and to move some hospital facilities, including maternity services, to Carlisle, 80 miles away.^[13]

In February 2017 Gwynne was appointed as the Labour Party's Co-National Campaign Coordinator. He shared this post with Ian Lavery.^[14]

During the 2017 general election campaign Gwynne clashed with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Sky News, calling Johnson a "pillock" in a debate over Brexit policy.^[15][16]

4th term (2017–2019)

At the snap 2017 general election, Gwynne was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 63.5% and an increased majority of 14,077.^[17] Following the election, Gwynne retained his role as the Labour Party's Co-National Campaign Coordinator, and was promoted to become Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, replacing Grahame Morris.^[18]

In April 2018 Gwynne was named as a member of a Facebook group where individuals had shared anti-Semitic material. When a reporter confronted him about the group he stated that he had been added to it without his permission.^[19]

5th term (2019–2024)

At the 2019 general election, Gwynne was again re-elected, with a decreased vote share of 50.1% and a decreased majority of 6,175.^[20][21]

In April 2020, one day after Keir Starmer was elected as the new Labour leader, Gwynne resigned from his position as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.^[22]

In the November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle he returned to his former role as Shadow Minister for Public Health.^[23][24]

In the 2023 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Social Care.^[25]

6th term (2024–)

Due to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, Gwynne's constituency of Denton and Reddish was abolished, and replaced with Gorton and Denton. At the 2024 general election, Gwynne was elected to Parliament as MP for Gorton and Denton with 50.8% of the vote and a majority of 13,413.^[26] After the election, Gwynne was named as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention in the Department of Health and Social Care.