Navendu Mishra

Navendu Mishra held the safe seat of Stockport for Labour after the incumbent MP Ann Coffey defected to Change UK and stood down. Raised in Stockport, Mishra worked at John Lewis in the town and was a shop-floor trade unionist. He later became an industrial organiser for Unison, organising care workers across Greater Manchester. He became active in Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign and founded Stockport Momentum after Corbyn’s victory. In the 2017 general election he contested the neighbouring constituency of Hazel Grove, coming third in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat marginal. He was later elected to serve on Labour’s NEC and was backed by Momentum and nine trade unions in his general election campaign. In the 2020 Labour leadership election he nominated Rebecca Long-Bailey. He has a majority of 10,039 and currently sits on the International Development Committee, the Committees on Arms Export Controls and the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Mishra is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and in October 2020 resigned as parliamentary private secretary to Angela Rayner to vote against the Labour whip against the proposed Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.