Sadik Al-Hassan

Sadik Al-Hassan was elected Labour MP for North Somerset on 4 July 2024 with 19,138 votes (35.6 per cent) and a majority of 639 (1.2 per cent), defeating Sir Liam Fox. He overturned a Conservative majority of 17,536 in a seat that had returned a Conservative since 1910, ending a hold of 114 years. Fox had represented the area for 32 years and served as Defence Secretary, International Trade Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. "There is no such thing as a safe seat," Al-Hassan said in his victory speech.

Born in December 1984 to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother and educated at the University of Bath, he is an award winning pharmacist and superintendent of the online pharmacy PillTime, and worked on the NHS frontline in Patchway during the Covid pandemic. He is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in 2024. His prior political experience was grassroots: a Labour councillor and Deputy Mayor at Emersons Green Town Council, a parish level body in South Gloucestershire. He lived in Lyde Green and worked at Cribbs Causeway, both on the far side of Bristol from the constituency, and has since moved to Pill within North Somerset.

He was selected only in May 2024 and contacted more than 13,000 people during the short campaign, asking voters to "lend" him their support. In November 2024 he joined a group of medic MPs backing assisted dying legislation, drawing on his clinical experience, and he served on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee in January 2025. In an October 2024 BBC interview he described the net zero migration target as a "gimmick." He holds officer roles in several APPGs.