Peter Prinsley

Peter Richard Prinsley^[2] (born 8 April 1958)^[3] is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected as Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in the general election held on 4 July 2024.^[4]

Prinsley is an otorhinolaryngologist by profession (a physician specialising in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat). He was educated at Sheffield Medical School.^[5] Before being elected to Parliament, he worked as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, James Paget University Hospital and in private practice.^{[6] [7]} He has an interest in Otology and taught at Norwich Medical School.

After working as a consultant surgeon for 20 years, Prinsley studied for a Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of East Anglia.^[8] He has published on a variety of academic topics with a particular focus on Cholesteatoma.^[9] Since becoming an MP an article of his has been published on the 'Epidemiology of Cholesteatoma in the UK Biobank'.

Prinsley has been a regional director for the Royal College of Surgeons,^[10] and was the chair of the Norfolk Deaf Association.^[11]

Prinsley was elected as a Norwich City councillor in 2023.^[12] He is a member of Jewish Labour Movement and GMB.^[13]

Prinsley had sought selection as Labour candidate for both Norwich North ^[14] and Great Yarmouth, but was unsuccessful. After the 2024 election was called, the Labour Party told him he had been selected to fight Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket,^[15] and his successful election was seen as a surprise win in an area that has traditionally been heavily Conservative.^[16] He defeated Conservative candidate Will Tanner, who had previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. He campaigned in an old Post Office van, decorated with photographs of him in surgical scrubs, becoming one of the oldest first-time MPs. He has said that, regarding the jobs of surgeon and MP, 'both of these roles have their uses'.^[15]

In October 2024, Prinsley suggested that 100ドルm spent on F-35 fighter jets for HMS Queen Elizabeth would be better spent on the BBC World Service.^[17]

He is the Vice-Chair of the APPG on Deafness, an officer for the APPG on Vascular and Venous Disease, and a member of the APPGs on the East of England, Health and British Sign Language.^[18]

He is Jewish and attends Norwich Synagogue.^[13] His wife, Dr Marian Prinsley, is a retired psychologist and former president of the Norwich Hebrew Congregation who became the Sheriff of Norwich in 2019.^[19] Mr Prinsley's brother-in-law is John Schlapobersky, a group psychotherapist and anti-apartheid activist who was a Founding Trustee of the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture. The Prinsleys have three adult children and are grandparents.^[12]

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