Jon Trickett | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Normanton and Hemsworth Hemsworth (1996–2024) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 1 February 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Derek Enright | ||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 6,662 (18.3%) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 4 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ian Austin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Desmond Swayne | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Leader of Leeds City Council | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 1989–1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | George Mudie | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Brian Walker | ||||||||||||||||||
| Member of Leeds City Council for Beeston | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 28 September 1984 – 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Michael McGowan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Angela Gabriel | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Jon Hedley Trickett 2 July 1950 Leeds, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Socialist Campaign Group | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Hull (BA) University of Leeds (MA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||||||
Jon Hedley Trickett (born 2 July 1950)[1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth, previously Hemsworth, since 1996. He was Shadow Lord President of the Council from 2016 to 2020 and served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2017.
Trickett served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2008 to 2010 and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet by Ed Miliband in 2011 as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Trickett was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government under new Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015, before serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from July to October 2016. He was later appointed Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office by Corbyn in February 2017, alongside his portfolio as Shadow Lord President of the Council.
He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, a parliamentary group of Labour MPs.
- ^ "Jon Trickett". 14 May 2003. Retrieved 19 June 2024.