Navendu Mishra
MP
Official portrait, 2019
Member of Parliament
for Stockport
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byAnn Coffey
Majority10,039 (24.1%)
Personal details
Born (1989-08-22) 22 August 1989 (age 34)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations		Socialist Campaign Group (2019–present)
OccupationPolitician
WebsiteOfficial website

Navendu Prabhat Mishra[1] (born 22 August 1989)[2] is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport since 2019.[3]

Early life

He is of Indian ancestry; his mother is from Gorakhpur and his father is from Kanpur, both in Uttar Pradesh.[4] He attended the public school Clifton College in Bristol.[5]

Career

Before entering politics, Mishra was a shop-floor trade unionist in Stockport, eventually becoming an organiser for Unison and helping to organise care workers in precarious employment.[5][6]

Mishra was one of the founders of Stockport Momentum and supported Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 and 2016 Labour leadership elections.[7]

He was a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee from September 2018 until December 2019.[8] As he was one of the nine representatives for Constituency Labour Parties, Mishra was ineligible to remain a member of the NEC upon his election as a Member of Parliament.[9]

Mishra unsuccessfully contested the seat of Hazel Grove (part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport) in the snap election of 2017, but achieved Labour's highest vote share ever in that constituency. He won 20.5% of the vote in a seat that has traditionally been a Conservative-Liberal Democrat marginal.[10][11]

He was selected as Labour's candidate for Stockport in the 2019 general election after the incumbent, Ann Coffey, left the Labour Party in protest over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and joined Change UK.[12] Mishra held the seat for Labour, with a 52% share of the vote.[3]

Mishra is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and endorsed fellow SCG member Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 2020 Labour leadership election.[13][14]

On 15 October 2020, Mishra resigned as PPS to Angela Rayner to vote against the proposed Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, rebelling against the Labour whip to abstain.[15]

During the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election, Mishra accused his own party of having a "hierarchy of racism", with "some groups seen as fair game for attacks based on religion/race/heritage".[16]

Personal life

Mishra lives in Brinnington.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Members Sworn". Hansard.parliament.uk. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. ^ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  3. ^ a b "Stockport parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Mishra, Mohindra tipped to win Dec 12 polls, boost number of UK Indian MPs". Hindustan Times. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Navendu Mishra MP for Stockport". Labour Social. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Mishra wins parliamentary candidacy in Stockport". Morning Star. 11 August 2019.
  7. ^ Mishra, Navendu (18 June 2018). "Navendu Mishra: Why I'm standing for Labour's NEC". LabourList. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Full #JC9 slate elected to Labour's NEC". LabourList. 3 September 2018.
  9. ^ Rodgers, Sienna (6 February 2020). "Momentum reveals slate for local party reps in NEC by-elections". LabourLIst. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Hazel Grove - 2017 Election Results - General Elections Online". electionresults.parliament.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  11. ^ Rodgers, Sienna. "NEC member Nav Mishra triumphs in Stockport selection race". LabourList. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  12. ^ Statham, Nick (18 November 2019). "Stockport's Labour MP for over 25 years throws support behind Lib Dem candidate". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  13. ^ Navendu Mishra MP [@NavPMishra] (13 May 2020). "Thanks for getting in touch, I support UBI & have signed letters in the past regarding this matter. Several members of Socialist Campaign Group cannot sign letters nowadays as they serve in front bench or Parliamentary Private Secretary roles. Although I am a proud member of SCG" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. ^ a b "The New Intake". Tribune. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  15. ^ Mishra, Navendu [@NavPMishra] (15 October 2020). "It is with a heavy heart that I resigned as a PPS before this afternoon's vote on the #CHISBill.
    I will continue to support @AngelaRayner and @Keir_Starmer from the backbenches and do all I can to help secure a Labour Government"     (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. ^ Ehsan, Rakib (29 June 2021). "The Labour party has displayed utter contempt for British Indian voters in Batley and Spen". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.

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