| Office: | Member of Parliament for Camborne and Redruth |
| Honorific Suffix: | MP |
| Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
| Predecessor: | George Eustice |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Majority: | 7,806 (16.3%) |
Peregrine 'Perran' Henry Rupert Moon[1] is a British Labour Party politician who has served as MP for Camborne and Redruth since 2024.[2]
Moon’s family is Cornish and he was born in Redruth where his father, Charles, was a local GP. His mother was an NHS nurse at Treliske Hospital. Moon attended Trewirgie School.
Moon was a Labour & Co-operative Party district councillor for Banbury Grimbsbury & Hightown in Cherwell district council in Oxfordshire from 2019 to May 2023. During the 2024 election campaign he was criticised by opponents for allegedly referring to himself as a 'local councillor', when his seat was not in Cornwall.[3] Moon was also accused of 'political Cornishness shenanigans' by a local resident, because he chose to go by the nickname 'Perran' (similar to the name of Cornwall's patron saint St Piran) rather than his real name. [4]
Moon stood in the Camborne and Redruth constituency in the 2024 general election following the retirement of George Eustice.[5] He polled first of seven on a swing of 17.7% and becoming the constituency's first ever Labour MP.[6] Moon said in a speech after the results were announced that the election had established a "new Cornish red wall" after Labour won four of the six seats in Cornwall. He was one of six MPs who, in 2024, took their parliamentary affirmations in the Cornish language.
Moon was born and raised in Cornwall and is one of seven children. He lived in Oxfordshire from where his ex wife came and where he raised his 3 children, before returning to Cornwall in 2022. Before entering Parliament, Moon worked in the automotive sector for 25 years as a marketing & communications director and was latterly the director of an electric vehicle charging business that uses only sustainable energy. [7]