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Justin Madders | |
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Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling Up [a] | |
Assumed office 4 December 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Office established |
Shadow Minister for Secondary Care, Workforce and Patient Health [b] | |
In office 10 April 2020 – 4 December 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Office re-established |
Succeeded by | Feryal Clark |
In office 18 September 2015 – 14 March 2019 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
Preceded by | Jamie Reed |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Shadow Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | |
In office 10 July 2018 – 14 March 2019 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Member of Parliament for Ellesmere Port and Neston | |
Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
Preceded by | Andrew Miller |
Majority | 8,764 (17.9%) |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 November 1972 |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
Website | Official website |
Justin Piers Richard Madders (born 22 November 1972) is a British Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellesmere Port and Neston since the May 2015 general election. [1]
Madders studied law at the University of Sheffield and worked as a solicitor, specialising in employment law, before entering politics. [2] [3]
Before his election to Parliament, Madders was the leader of the Labour opposition on Cheshire West and Chester Council and leader of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council. [3]
In the 2005 general election, Madders unsuccessfully stood in the safe Conservative seat of Tatton, coming second to the sitting MP, George Osborne. [4] He won 23.5% of the vote, a decrease of 3.8% from the 2001 general election. [5]
Madders entered the House of Commons at the 2015 general election, where he was elected as MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston. He won 47.8% of the vote and a majority of 6,275. [6] [7]
In September 2015, Madders was appointed the Shadow Minister for Secondary Care, Workforce and Patient Health. [8] He remained in this position until March 2019, when he resigned from his frontbench position, after defying the Labour whip in a vote on a second Brexit referendum. [9]
He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election. [10]
At the snap 2017 general election, Madders was re-elected, increasing his share of the vote to 59.2% and increasing his majority to 11,390. [11]
Madders was appointed the Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling Up in July 2018, before also resigning this post in March 2019. [9]
Madders was again re-elected in the 2019 general election with a decreased majority of 8,764 and a decreased vote share of 53.3%. [12]
In April 2020, Madders was re-appointed as the Shadow Minister for Secondary Care, Workforce and Patient Health by the new Labour leader Keir Starmer. [8] He left this post in December 2021, when he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling Up.
He is married and has three children. [13]