Tony Lloyd

Who is Tony Lloyd?

Anthony Joseph Lloyd is a British Labour Party politician and the inaugural Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner. Born in Stretford, and serving as a Trafford councillor from 1979 to 1984, in 1983 Lloyd was elected Member of Parliament for Stretford, before being selected for the Manchester Central seat when it was created in 1997. 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 in the Greater Manchester Police area.

In 2011, the Manchester Evening News listed Lloyd among its 250 of the Most Influential People in Greater Manchester, describing him as "a major figure on Labour politics in Greater Manchester", and introduced him as "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester" on his victory as the region's inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner in 2012.