Perran Moon

Perran Moon was elected Labour MP for Camborne and Redruth on 4 July 2024 with 19,360 votes (40.5 per cent) and a majority of 7,806 (16.3 per cent), the constituency's first ever Labour MP. George Eustice, the former Environment Secretary, did not contest the election, so this was an open race rather than a seat taken from a fighting incumbent.

Born in Redruth in April 1970, the son of a local GP who was also Redruth Rugby Football Club's doctor and an NHS nurse at Treliske Hospital, and schooled in Redruth and Penzance, his Cornish roots are deep rather than recently assembled. His pre Parliament career was in the motor and electric vehicle industries: marketing director roles at Manheim UK and Auto Trader after spells at Nissan and Renault, then Chief Marketing Officer and interim CEO of the EV charging company Believ and a senior role at Zapmap, executive level experience rather than marketing alone. From 2019 to 2023 he was a Labour and Co-operative councillor on Cherwell District Council in Oxfordshire before returning to Cornwall for the seat.

Since entering Parliament he has been one of the most active new MPs in debate, with 65 contributions on Energy Security and Net Zero, 56 on Housing, Communities and Local Government, and dozens more on environment and on business and trade. He has voted in 566 divisions with zero rebellions, one of the highest participation rates in the 2024 intake, and served on the Great British Energy Bill Committee.

His constituency work is specific. He has championed government investment in the South Crofty tin mine, the last working tin mine in Cornwall, now being reopened. He has campaigned for community banking hubs in Redruth and Hayle after bank branch closures and pushed on sewage pollution affecting Cornish beaches. He talks of a "Cornish Celtic Tiger" built on critical minerals, renewable energy and sustainable industry.