Sadik Al-Hassan | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for North Somerset |
Predecessor: | Liam Fox |
Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
Majority: | 639 (1.2%) |
Party: | Labour |
Alma Mater: | University of Bath |
Sadik Adam Al-Hassan is a British Labour Party politician and pharmacist. He has been the Member of Parliament for North Somerset since 2024. He gained the seat from Liam Fox, a Conservative.[1]
Al-Hassan studied at the University of Bath. He was a store manager at Boots in Wirral for three years and worked at Well Pharmacy for over seven years as an area operations manager and a branch manager. At time of election, he worked in Cribbs Causeway as the superintendent pharmacist of the online PillTime, which has about 100 patients in North Somerset.[2]
Al-Hassan was 6th on Labour's list of candidates for the South West England region in the 2019 European Parliament elections and was not elected.[3]
He was selected as Labour's candidate for North Somerset in the 2024 general election and ran on a platform of rebuilding the NHS. He also expressed concern over pharmacies closing in the local area.[4] He defeated the incumbent Conservative Party candidate Liam Fox, who had been the MP for the area (North Somserset and previously Woodspring) for three decades.[5]
Al-Hassan is Muslim.[6] As of 2024, he has lived in Emersons Green for ten years.[7] [8]