Laurence Turner | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forBirmingham Northfield | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Gary Sambrook |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 1988 (age 37) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Wadham College,University of Oxford |
Laurence David Russell Turner[1] (born May 1988) is a BritishLabour Party politician and trade unionist, who has beenMember of Parliament (MP) forBirmingham Northfield since 2024.
Turner was born in May 1988.[2] His parents were teachers and he grew up inNottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.[3][4] He studied at theUniversity of Oxford andBirkbeck, University of London.[5]
Turner worked as a constituency assistant and researcher (2011–2012), then as aparliamentary assistant (2012–2015) in the House of Commons.[6][5] The MPs he worked with wereChris Leslie,Lillian Greenwood andRichard Burden.[6][4] He then worked for the Labour Party as a policy advisor specialising in transport from 2015 to 2016.[5][4] From 2017 until his election as an MP, he worked at theGMB union, as head of research and policy.[7][6] He was also a director of theLabour Research Department from 2018 to 2024.[2]
Turner was selected as the candidate forBirmingham Northfield at short notice at the beginning of the2024 general election campaign, when existing candidate Alex Aitken had to step down for "personal reasons".[3]
On 4 July 2024, he was electedMember of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield with 14,929 votes (39.6%) and a majority of 5,389.[8] On 29 July 2024, he made hismaiden speech in theHouse of Commons during a debate on the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill.[9]
Turner hasdyspraxia,[4][10] and was a director of the Dyspraxia Foundation from 2020 to 2023.[2]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forBirmingham Northfield 2024–present | Incumbent |