Alex Mayer | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament forDunstable and Leighton Buzzard | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Majority | 667 (1.4%) |
| Member of the European Parliament forEast of England | |
| In office 15 November 2016 – 1 July 2019[1][2] | |
| Preceded by | Richard Howitt |
| Succeeded by | Catherine Rowett |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexandra Louise Mayer (1981-06-02)2 June 1981 (age 43) High Wycombe,Buckinghamshire, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Website | votealexmayer |
Alexandra Louise Mayer (born 2 June 1981) is a BritishLabour Party politician who has served as theMember of Parliament (MP) forDunstable and Leighton Buzzard since2024.[3] She was previously aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) for theEast of England region from 2016 to 2019.[4]
Mayer was born inHigh Wycombe,Buckinghamshire and brought up inCrawley,West Sussex. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in history fromExeter University in 2001 and has a master's degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from theUniversity of Leeds.
In the2014 European Parliament election she stood in for theEast of England region in second position on the Labour list,[5] which did not yield a seat, but took over fromRichard Howitt following his resignation.[6][7]
Mayer is a member of the Labour Party's National Policy Forum, the GMB, UNISON and the Co-operative Party.
In the European Parliament she was Labour's spokesperson for the foreign affairs (16–18) and the economy (18–19)[4] and a member of the US-EU Relations Delegation. She is the international co-ordinator for the Washington DC Statehood campaign.[8]
A member of the Labour Animal Welfare Society, Alex is a long-standing animal welfare campaigner, she was awarded the Cruelty Free International Parliamentarian Award and took an 8 million signature petition to the United Nations in New York on the topic of animal free cosmetic testing.
Mayer has been a member of Amnesty International for over twenty years and worked on issues relating to the ongoing human rights abuses in Kashmir, as a member of the European Parliament Friends of Kashmir group.[9]
In May 2024, Mayer was selected to beLabour'scandidate for the new constituency ofDunstable and Leighton Buzzard at the2024 general election.[10][11]
On 4 July 2024, Mayer won the Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard seat from the Conservatives by a margin of 667 votes (1.4%), becoming the area's first female MP.[3] She is the first Labour MP for the area in over 50 years since Labour'sGwilym Roberts won theSouth Bedfordshire constituency in1966.[12]
In October 2024, Mayer urged the Government to change the process ofDaylight Saving Time, by putting clocks one hour ahead ofGreenwich Mean Time in winter and two hours ahead in summer, in what was described as a "fundamental shake-up of time" that would provide people with an extra hour of daylight for eleven months of the year; Mayer proposed calling the new timezone "Churchill Time" afterSir Winston Churchill, who introduced the same idea duringWorld War Two.[13]
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