| Lee Barron | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for Corby and East Northamptonshire |
| Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Tom Pursglove |
| Majority: | 6,331 (12.8%) |
| Party: | Labour |
Lee Jason Barron[1] is a trade unionist and British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Corby and East Northamptonshire since 2024.[2]
Lee was raised in a working-class family in Far Cotton, Northampton, and went to Delapre Primary School.[3]
Lee left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship at Royal Mail as a postal worker.[3] He later became the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) Midlands Regional Secretary.[4]
After Lee’s time working for the CWU, he became the Midlands Regional Secretary for the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing over 1 million workers.[3] [4] [4]
Lee has also been a Northampton magistrate for over 20 years.[3] [5]
Barron is a former Northampton borough councillor and during this time was leader of the Labour group.[3]
In 2012, Barron was selected as the Labour candidate for the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner election, but stood down after he was caught out by a rule change that made him and many other candidates ineligible.[3] [5]
On 4 July 2024, Barron was elected as MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, turning the incumbent Conservative Tom Pursglove’s 10,268[6] majority into his own 6,331 majority.[7] [8] [9]
In a BBC radio debate before his election, Barron said he had always been a “Mod never a Rocker” and rides a "Vespa with 12 mirrors, eight spotlamps and continental whitewall tyres".[10]