Sadik Al-Hassan

Sadik Adam Al-Hassan (born 17 December 1984)^[1] 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.^[2] Al-Hassan previously worked in pharmacy for nearly two decades.

Al-Hassan was born to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother.^[3] His father, a civil servant, arrived in Britain in the 1970s.^[4] Al-Hassan attended Calday Grange Grammar School in the Wirral. He graduated from the University of Bath in 2007.^[5]

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.^{[6] [7]}

Al-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.^[8]

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.^[9] 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.^[10]

In November 2024, he joined a group of fellow medic MPs to call for Parliament to back assisted dying legislation.^[11]

Married 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.^{[12] [13]}

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