About Tony Lloyd
Tony Lloyd has been a Member of Parliament since 1983. He represented the Stretford constituency until 1997 and following boundary changes has been Member of Parliament for Manchester Central since then. He was born in Manchester and has lived here for most of his life.
In Parliament
T
ony is Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party. In this role he chairs meetings of the PLP which consists of all Labour MP’s.
Tony is the Chair of the Trade Union Group of Labour MPs (see TULO and the Trades Union Congress).
He was a visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford in 2005 and 2006.
Tony is a member of several All Party Groups in Parliament, and Chairs the All Party Group on Venezuela.
Tony is the leader of the British Delegation to the OSCE. The OSCE was established in and currently has 55 member States from Europe, Central Asia and North America. It deals with a wide-range of security related issues such as democratisation, election monitoring, human rights, arms control, economic and environmental security and security building.
Tony has held the following positions:
- Minister of state, foreign and commonwealth office (1997 – 1999)
- Opposition spokesperson, foreign affairs (1995 – 1997)
- Opposition spokesperson, environment (1994 – 1995)
- Opposition spokesperson, education (1992 – 1994)
- Opposition spokesperson, employment (1988 – 1992)
- Opposition spokesperson, transport (1987 – 1988)
- Opposition whip (1986 – 1987)
Tony was the leader of the British Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and one of its vice-Presidents. The Council of Europe was set up to defend human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law.
Tony was also the leader of the British Delegation to the Western European Union. Its purpose is a Parliamentary scrutiny body with respect to European security and defence.
Before entering Parliament:
- Tony studied at Nottingham University and Manchester Business School, gaining qualifications in Maths and Business.
- He was a lecturer in the Department of Business at Salford University.
- He was a councillor on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979-84 and was deputy leader of the Labour group.
