Tony Lloyd

Sir Tony Lloyd
Official portrait, 2021
Mayor of Greater Manchester
Interim 29 May 2015 – 8 May 2017
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Andy Burnham
Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester
In office 22 November 2012 – 8 May 2017
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Beverley Hughes[a]
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 5 May 1997 – 28 July 1999
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Nicholas Bonsor
Succeeded by	John Battle
Member of Parliament
In office 8 June 2017 – 17 January 2024
Preceded by	Simon Danczuk
Succeeded by	George Galloway
Constituency	Rochdale
In office 1 May 1997 – 22 October 2012
Preceded by	Bob Litherland
Succeeded by	Lucy Powell
Constituency	Manchester Central
In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Winston Churchill
Succeeded by	Beverley Hughes[b]
Constituency	Stretford
Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
In office 5 December 2006 – 15 March 2012
Party leader	Tony Blair Gordon Brown Harriet Harman (acting) Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Ann Clwyd
Succeeded by	David Watts
Personal details
Born	Anthony Joseph Lloyd (1950-02-25)25 February 1950 Stretford, Lancashire, England
Died	17 January 2024(2024-01-17) (aged 73) Manchester, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Judith Tear ​ (m. 1974)​
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Nottingham (BSc) Manchester Business School (DipBA)
Awards	Knight Bachelor (2021)

Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd (25 February 1950 – 17 January 2024) was a British Labour politician. He served as a member of Parliament (MP) for 36 years, making him one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history. He served as MP for Stretford from 1983 to 1997, Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012, and represented Rochdale from 2017 until his death in 2024. He was Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017 and served as the interim Mayor of Greater Manchester in his last two years in the role.

Born in Stretford, Lloyd served as a Trafford councillor from 1979 to 1984. In 1983 he was elected MP for Stretford, representing the constituency until it was abolished in 1997, at which time he was elected for Manchester Central. As an MP, Lloyd was an opposition spokesman between 1987 and 1997, a minister of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1997 and 1999, and Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2006 to 2012.

Lloyd continued as a constituency MP until October 2012, when he stepped down to contest the 2012 police and crime commissioner elections for the Greater Manchester Police area.^[1] He was elected and assumed the position in November 2012. Lloyd, appointed interim mayor of Greater Manchester in 2015, announced in 2016 that he would be seeking to become the Labour Party candidate in the Greater Manchester mayoral election,^[2] but lost the nomination to Andy Burnham^[3] before being elected as MP for Rochdale in 2017.

Lloyd served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020, resigning to recover from his illness of COVID-19.^[4] He was also Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland between 2019 and 2020. In 2011, the Manchester Evening News listed Lloyd among its 250 Most Influential People in Greater Manchester, describing him as "a major figure on Labour politics in Greater Manchester",^[5] and "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester" on his election as police and crime commissioner in 2012.^[1] In a directory of MPs produced by The Guardian, Andrew Roth described Lloyd as "well informed, thoughtful and realistic regionalist and internationalist".^[6]

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