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Sadik Al-Hassan
Sadik Adam Al-Hassan is a British Labour Party politician and pharmacist who has been the Member of Parliament for North Somerset since 2024. He gained the seat from Liam Fox, a Conservative.[1] Al-Hassan previously worked in pharmacy for nearly two decades. Early life and careerAl-Hassan was born to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother.[2] His father, a civil servant, arrived in Britain in the 1970s.[3] Al-Hassan attended Calday Grange Grammar School in the Wirral. He graduated from the University of Bath in 2007.[4] Al-Hassan was a store manager at Boots in Wirral for three years and worked at Well Pharmacy for over seven years as an area operations manager and a branch manager. At time of election, he worked in Cribbs Causeway as the superintendent pharmacist of the online PillTime, which has about 200,000 nominated patients all around the UK.[5][6] Political careerAl-Hassan was 6th on Labour's list of candidates for the South West England region in the 2019 European Parliament elections and was not elected.[7] He was selected as Labour's candidate for North Somerset in the 2024 general election and ran on a platform of rebuilding the NHS. He also expressed concern over pharmacies closing in the local area.[8] He defeated the incumbent Conservative Party candidate Liam Fox, who had been the MP for the area (North Somserset and previously Woodspring) for three decades.[9] In November 2024, he joined a group of fellow medic MPs to call for Parliament to back assisted dying legislation.[10] Personal lifeMarried with 2 children, Al-Hassan is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in the last election. As of 2024, he has lived in Emersons Green for ten years.[11][12] References
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