Mike Reader | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forNorthampton South | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Lewer |
| Majority | 4,071 (9.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
Michael Reader[1] is a BritishLabour Party politician who has been theMember of Parliament forNorthampton South since2024.
Reader studiedcivil engineering, graduating fromLoughborough University in 2007 and then gaining an MSc atCoventry University in 2009. He worked at construction consultancyPick Everard for 10 years.[2] While there, he helped found Perfect Circle, a joint venture with Gleeds andAecom which created 500 jobs in the East Midlands.[2] He later toldConstruction News that his political ambitions were sparked while working for Pick Everard during the2010–2015 Conservative-led coalition government: "I could see first-hand what public sector cuts meant on the ground, in terms of fixing schools with leaky roofs, repurposing hospitals and road and infrastructure maintenance".[3]
In 2017, he then joined theMace construction business,[4] where he worked for over six years.[2] At Mace during theCOVID-19 pandemic, he worked on aNHS Nightingale project as the construction team's operations director.[2]
Selected to contest theNorthampton South seat in March 2023,[5] Reader took a sabbatical from his job at Mace during the 2024 general election campaign; he said he expected to leave Mace if he was elected.[2] He gained the seat fromAndrew Lewer, aConservative.[6] He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 5 September 2024.[7] Mike was sponsored byLabour friends of israel to visitIsrael in March 2024.[8]
On 27 November 2024, Reader was elected as the new chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure.[9]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forNorthampton South 2024– | Incumbent |
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