Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes was elected Labour and Co-operative MP for Bournemouth East on 4 July 2024 with 18,316 votes (40.8 per cent) and a majority of 5,479 (12.2 per cent), the first Labour MP in the constituency's history, defeating Conservative Tobias Ellwood. Born in Salford in February 1983 and the first in his family to go to university, he studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge and held a fellowship at Yale, an unusually accomplished educational path.

His record is one of delivery, not just potential. For five years until July 2024 he was Chief Executive of Elmore Community Services, an Oxford charity working on mental health, domestic abuse and homelessness. As a Labour and Co-operative councillor on Oxford City Council for ten years, Deputy Leader from 2020 to 2022 and Cabinet Member for Green Transport and Zero Carbon, he led work of national significance: the UK's first Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change in 2019, and Energy Superhub Oxford, a public private partnership that delivered what was then Europe's most powerful electric charging hub, the world's largest hybrid battery and the UK's largest EV superhub, alongside the UK's largest solar carport. He was named the Local Government Information Unit's Environment and Sustainability Pioneer of the Year in 2020.

He sits on the Public Accounts Commission, and his local campaigns include upgrades to Pokesdown Station and inclusive playground facilities with wheelchair accessible swings and sensory areas.