Oliver Ryan | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forBurnley | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Antony Higginbotham |
| Majority | 3,420 (8.6%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oliver David Ryan (1995-04-22)22 April 1995 (age 30) Manchester, England |
| Political party | Labour Co-op (suspended) |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester (BA) University of Law (GDL) |
Oliver David Ryan (born 22 April 1995) is a British politician who has served asMember of Parliament forBurnley since 2024.[1] Previously, from 2014 to 2023, he was a councillor onTameside Metropolitan Borough Council, where he was Executive Member for Finance and Economic Growth and earlier Executive Member for Children's Social Care.[2] He served as aLabour and Co-operativeMP from the2024 election until February 2025, when he was suspended from the party for bringing the party into disrepute.[3]
Oliver David Ryan was born in April 1995 inManchester. He has three siblings and grew up inDroylsden.[4][5][6] Ryan graduated from theUniversity of Manchester with aBA (Hons) in Modern History with Politics in 2016 before obtaining a postgraduateGraduate Diploma in Law (GDL) in Law from theUniversity of Law.[7][5] He has spoken of the influence his grandparents had on his upbringing; his grandfather David Boyle was aGMB Union official and his grandmother was an NHS nurse.
Ryan joined theLabour Party in 2010, aged 15.[2] He was elected as the Labour Party councillor forAudenshaw ward in the2014 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council election at the age of 19.[8] He retained his seat in the2018 and2022 elections. Ryan stood down ahead of the2023 election.[9][10] Ryan was then elected as theLabour and Co-operative MP forBurnley in the2024 election with a majority of 3,420 votes, defeating the incumbentAntony Higginbotham of theConservative Party.[6]
Ryan has said that his main priority in politics is to break the "generational cycle of worklessness" among some Burnley families.[11] In February 2025, Ryan apologised for comments made in aWhatsApp chat group, afterAndrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister and was suspended from the Labour Party, over messages he sent to the same group.[12] Ryan was subsequently also suspended from the Labour parliamentary party.[13]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Oliver Ryan | 12,598 | 31.7 | –8.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Birtwistle | 9,178 | 23.1 | +15.4 | |
| Conservative | Antony Higginbotham | 8,058 | 20.3 | –20.2 | |
| Reform UK | Nathan McCollum | 7,755 | 19.5 | +12.4 | |
| Green | Jack Launer | 1,518 | 3.8 | +2.0 | |
| Independent | Rayyan Fiass | 292 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Independent | Mitchell Cryer | 169 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Independent | David Roper | 151 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 3,420 | 8.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 39,719 | 53 | –9.4 | ||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | +5.8 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Oliver Ryan | 1,520 | 52.1 | +5.2 | |
| Conservative | Danny Mather | 1,178 | 40.4 | –4.0 | |
| Green | Luke Robinson | 221 | 7.6 | –1.1 | |
| Majority | 342 | 11.7 | |||
| Turnout | 2,930 | 31.1 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | +4.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Oliver Ryan | 1,581 | 55.3 | +10.0 | |
| Conservative | Danny Mather | 922 | 32.2 | +5.7 | |
| UKIP | Peter Harris | 195 | 6.8 | –15.6 | |
| Green | Georgia Blakeney | 161 | 5.6 | +0.4 | |
| Turnout | 2,865 | 30 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Oliver Ryan | 1,284 | 42.32 | −9.36 | |
| UKIP | David Turner | 1,162 | 38.30 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Colin White | 429 | 14.14 | −18.42 | |
| Green | Nancy Jaegar | 159 | 5.24 | N/A | |
| Majority | 122 | 4.02 | −15.1 | ||
| Turnout | 3,034 | 33 | −29 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forBurnley 2024–present | Incumbent |
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