Sir Tony Lloyd | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Mayor of Greater Manchester | |
| Interim 29 May 2015 – 8 May 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Andy Burnham |
| Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester | |
| In office 22 November 2012 – 8 May 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Beverley Hughes[a] |
| Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 5 May 1997 – 28 July 1999 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Nicholas Bonsor |
| Succeeded by | John Battle |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 8 June 2017 – 17 January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Simon Danczuk |
| Succeeded by | George Galloway |
| Constituency | Rochdale |
| In office 1 May 1997 – 22 October 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Bob Litherland |
| Succeeded by | Lucy Powell |
| Constituency | Manchester Central |
| In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Winston Churchill |
| Succeeded by | Beverley Hughes[b] |
| Constituency | Stretford |
| Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party | |
| In office 5 December 2006 – 15 March 2012 | |
| Party leader |
|
| Preceded by | Ann Clwyd |
| Succeeded by | David Watts |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anthony Joseph Lloyd 25 February 1950 Stretford, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 17 January 2024 (aged 73) Manchester, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Judith Tear (m. 1974) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Knight Bachelor (2021) |
Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd (25 February 1950 – 17 January 2024) was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years, making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997, Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012, and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.
Born in Stretford, Lloyd served as a Trafford councillor from 1979 to 1984. In 1983 he was elected MP for Stretford, representing the constituency until it was abolished in 1997, at which time he was elected for Manchester Central. As an MP, Lloyd was an opposition spokesman between 1987 and 1997, a minister of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1997 and 1999, and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2006 to 2012.
Lloyd continued as a constituency MP until October 2012, when he stepped down to contest the 2012 police and crime commissioner elections for the Greater Manchester Police area.[1] He was elected and assumed the position in November 2012. Lloyd, appointed interim mayor of Greater Manchester in 2015, announced in 2016 that he would be seeking to become the Labour Party candidate in the Greater Manchester mayoral election,[2] but lost the nomination to Andy Burnham[3] before being elected as MP for Rochdale in 2017.
Lloyd served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020, resigning to recover from his illness of COVID-19.[4] He was also Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland between 2019 and 2020. In 2011, the Manchester Evening News listed Lloyd among its 250 Most Influential People in Greater Manchester, describing him as "a major figure on Labour politics in Greater Manchester",[5] and "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester" on his election as police and crime commissioner in 2012.[1] In a directory of MPs produced by The Guardian, Andrew Roth described Lloyd as "well informed, thoughtful and realistic regionalist and internationalist".[6]
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- ^ a b "Introducing new police commissioner Tony Lloyd – the most powerful man in Greater Manchester?". Manchester Evening News. 16 November 2012. Archived from the original on 19 November 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ Perraudin, Frances (11 February 2016). "Labour's Tony Lloyd announces Greater Manchester mayoral bid". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ Perraudin, Frances (9 August 2016). "Andy Burnham selected as Labour candidate for Greater Manchester mayor". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ "Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd steps down from frontbench after spell in ICU with coronavirus that left him 'gasping for air'". Manchester Evening News. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ Jupp 2012, p. 41.
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