Navendu Prabhat Mishra (born 22 August 1989) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the

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(MP) for Stockport since

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Early life

He is of Indian ancestry; his mother is from

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and his father is from Kanpur, both in

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. He attended the public school

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in Bristol.

Career

Before entering politics, Mishra was a shop-floor trade unionist in Stockport, eventually becoming an organiser for

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and helping to organise care workers in precarious employment. Mishra was one of the founders of Stockport Momentum and supported

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in the 2015 and

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Labour leadership elections. He was a member of the Labour Party

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from September 2018 until December 2019. As he was one of the nine representatives for Constituency Labour Parties, Mishra was ineligible to remain a member of the NEC upon his election as a Member of Parliament. Mishra unsuccessfully contested the seat of Hazel Grove (part of the

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) in the snap election of 2017, but achieved Labour's highest vote share ever in that constituency. He won 20.5% of the vote in a seat that has traditionally been a

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marginal. He was selected as Labour's candidate for Stockport in the 2019 general election after the incumbent,

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, left the Labour Party in protest over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and joined

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. Mishra held the seat for Labour, with a 52% share of the vote. Mishra is a member of the

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and endorsed fellow SCG member

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in the 2020 Labour leadership election. On 15 October 2020, Mishra resigned as PPS to

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to vote against the proposed

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, rebelling against the Labour whip to abstain. During the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election, Mishra accused his own party of having a "hierarchy of racism", with "some groups seen as fair game for attacks based on religion/race/heritage".

Personal life

Mishra lives in

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References

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* Living people People educated at Clifton College UK MPs 2019–present Year of birth missing (living people) British politicians of Indian descent Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stockport People from Stockport 1989 births {{UK-MP-2019-stub