Navendu Mishra
Navendu Prabhat Mishra is a British
Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Stockport since 2019.Early life
He is of Indian ancestry; his mother is from Gorakhpur and his father is from Kanpur, both in Uttar Pradesh.Career
Before entering politics, Mishra was a shop-floor trade unionist in Stockport, before becoming an organiser for Unison and helping to organise care workers in precarious employment.
Mishra was one of the founders of Stockport Momentum and supported Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 and 2016 leadership elections.
He was a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee from September 2018 until December 2019. As he was one of the nine representatives for Constituency Labour Parties, Mishra was ineligible to remain a member of the NEC upon his election as a Member of Parliament.
Mishra unsuccessfully contested the seat of Hazel Grove in the snap election of 2017, but achieved Labour's highest vote share ever in that constituency, 20.5%, in a seat that has traditionally been Conservative or Lib Dem.
Mishra is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and endorsed fellow SCG member Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 2020 Labour leadership election.Personal life
Mishra lives in Brinnington.Electoral record
2017 General Election
