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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.<ref name="power" /> 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,<ref name="Perraudin-2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but lost the nomination to Andy Burnham<ref name="Guardian_090816">Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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",Template:Sfn and "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester" on his election as police and crime commissioner in 2012.<ref name="power">Template:Cite news</ref> In a directory of MPs produced by The Guardian, Andrew Roth described Lloyd as "well informed, thoughtful and realistic regionalist and internationalist".<ref name="profile" />

Background and family lifeEdit

Lloyd was born in Stretford<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=wont/> on 25 February 1950,Template:Sfn Template:Page needed the fourth of five children of Sydney Lloyd and his wife, Cecily (née Boatte).Template:Sfn Template:Page needed He was raised in Stretford,<ref name=wont/> and attended Stretford Grammar School for Boys, the University of Nottingham (where he gained a BSc degree in mathematics in 1972), and Manchester Business School (where he studied for an MBA degree), before becoming a lecturer in Business Studies at the University of Salford.<ref name="mp">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=wont>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=profile>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lloyd's father died when he was 13, leaving his mother Cecily, a staunch supporter of the Labour Party, to shape his values. Lloyd said: "My mother had friends who died in the Spanish Civil War. I saw that as a simple battle of good versus evil and in that sense the basic morality of politics was instilled in me. I have always thought if not fighting for what's right and just, then what is politics for?"<ref name=wont/>

Political careerEdit

Trafford CouncilEdit

Lloyd was first elected to public office when he stood as a Labour Party candidate in the 1979 Trafford Council election, winning a seat on Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council representing the Clifford ward on 4Template:NbspMay 1979 (the day Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom).<ref name=mp/><ref name=wont/> Lloyd remained a Trafford councillor until 1984, rising to the rank of Deputy Labour Council Leader.<ref name=mp/><ref name=wont/><ref name=new/>

House of CommonsEdit

Lloyd entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Stretford on 9Template:NbspJune 1983, after the 1983 general election.<ref name=theywork>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was an opposition whip between 1986 and 1987, and became the opposition spokesman for transport (1987–1992), employment (1992–1994), the environment (1994–1995), and foreign affairs (1995–1997).<ref name=profile/>

Constituency boundaries were reformed for the 1997 general election, and Lloyd was selected for the Manchester Central constituency, where he was returned at each subsequent general election up to and including 2010.<ref name=wont/> Following the 1997 general election which returned Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Lloyd was appointed a junior Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under Robin Cook,<ref name=wont/> beginning on 5Template:NbspMay 1997.<ref name=theywork/> In 1998, an inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee into the supply of arms from Sandline International to Africa during the Sierra Leone Civil War led to accusations that Lloyd had been dishonest and lacked depth over the trade of illicit weaponry.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lloyd's position at the Foreign Office ended in a government reshuffle on 28 July 1999.<ref name=theywork/>

Lloyd remained a "powerful" backbencher,<ref name=profile/><ref name=new/> and on 5Template:NbspDecember 2006 became Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party Template:Snda post which leads all Labour MPs, both government and backbench MPsTemplate:Sndby defeating the incumbent, Ann Clwyd, who was perceived as being too close to Blair.<ref name=chair>Template:Cite news</ref> When he unseated Clwyd, the feud between Blair and Gordon Brown was much reported<ref name=new/>Template:SndLloyd, was described by journalist Michael White as a "Brownite ally",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Labour advisor Jonathan Powell wrote that Lloyd was a key member of Brown's "team of henchmen on the Labour backbenches to oppose Tony [Blair]".Template:Sfn Lloyd was a Member of the North West Regional Select Committee from 4Template:NbspMarch 2009 to 11 May 2010.<ref name=profile/> After revelations arising from the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, Lloyd was forced to apologise for over-claiming £2,210 in rent on his flat in London, adding it was "a genuine error".<ref name=new/> As Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Lloyd wrote to Labour MPs urging them to publish all expenses claims.<ref name=claim>Template:Cite news</ref>

Lloyd voted for Bryan Gould and John Prescott respectively in the Labour Party leadership elections of 1992 and 1994.Template:Sfn Although the TheyWorkForYou political activities website declares that Lloyd "hardly ever rebels",<ref name=theywork/> he voted against Labour's national agenda in key areas while an MP.<ref name=new/> He joined rebel Labour MPs by voting against government policy regarding the Iraq War,<ref name=theywork/> and rebelled against government policy to detain terror suspects for 90 days without trial.<ref name=theywork/> He voted against government policy to introduce student tuition fees,<ref name=theywork/> and as an "anti-nuclear and anti-war campaigner",<ref name=new/><ref name=chair/> voted against the renewal or replacement of the UK Trident programme in 2007.<ref name=theywork/> Lloyd was strongly in favour of and voted for the reform of the House of Lords, the Identity Cards Act 2006, and the expansion of London Heathrow Airport.<ref name=theywork/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Lloyd supported the bid for a proposed supercasino for East Manchester, and was furious with the House of Lords and Gordon Brown for axing the scheme, adding it was "grossly unfair and outrageous" and that "those who kicked it into touch deprived a community with one of the highest levels of unemployment the opportunity to access well paid jobs and proper training".<ref name=new/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He supported the proposed Greater Manchester congestion charge,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and campaigned in its favour in the 2008 referendum on the Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund, which was "overwhelmingly rejected" by voters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lloyd was the leader of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and one of its vice-presidents, a leader of the British delegation to the Western European Union, and leader of the British delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=belarus>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was head of the OSCE at a time when it was monitoring the 2010 Belarusian presidential election, which it denounced as fraudulent; Lloyd said the "election failed to give Belarus the new start it needed",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> adding "the people of Belarus deserved better".<ref name=belarus/> Lloyd was Chair of the Trade Union Group of Labour MPs from 2002 to 2012.<ref name=bio>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lloyd contributed chapters about John Robert Clynes and George Kelley, Labour members of Parliament for Manchester elected in 1906, to Men Who Made Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Diane Hayter,Template:Sfn and contributed a piece on the future of the Labour Party in the 2011 book What Next for Labour? Ideas for a new generation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Police and Crime CommissionerEdit

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Lloyd parading with the Greater Manchester Police at the 2013 Manchester Pride festival

Lloyd was described by Andrew Roth of The Guardian as a "realistic regionalist";<ref name=profile/> he supported the creation of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in 2011, but disagreed that there should be an elected Mayor of Greater Manchester.<ref name=profile/> On 15 February 2012, Lloyd announced his intention to resign as a member of Parliament to stand as a candidate for the directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lloyd said he was willing to leave the Manchester Central constituencyTemplate:Snda Labour safe seat<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Sndfor the PCC role because in "all the years I have been a MP, one of the abiding issues that people raised with me was fear of crime".<ref name=fight>Template:Cite news</ref> The resulting 2012 Manchester Central by-election was scheduled for the same November polling day.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections, Lloyd was elected as the inaugural Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, winning with 139,437 votes, a share of 51.23% and approximately 7% of the electorate,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> prompting the Manchester Evening News to quip that he had become "the most powerful man in Greater Manchester".<ref name=power/>

As Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester, Lloyd was one of the Labour Party's highest-profile commissioners, overseeing one of the largest police services in England and Wales outside of Greater London.<ref name=sham/> He received £100,000 per year, the largest salary of any English or Welsh Police and Crime Commissioner.<ref name=sham/> He was based at Salford Civic Centre and was required to devise a five-year strategic plan for Greater Manchester Police and hold Sir Peter Fahy, the force's chief constable, to account.<ref name=sham>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On hearing the news that Lloyd had won the election, Fahy said "one of the key roles of the PCC was negotiating and influencing the other local authorities, the health service, businesses and other organisations... We will be expecting him to fight for GMP at a national level with the Home Office over resourcing and changes to legislation".<ref name=fight/> At the end of March 2013, Lloyd published the Police and Crime Plan 2013–2016, setting his nine priorities for policing Greater Manchester. These were:<ref name=plan>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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The plan outlined Lloyd's vision "for all of us in Greater Manchester to work together to build the safest communities in Britain".<ref name=plan/>

Interim Mayor for Greater ManchesterEdit

Lloyd was appointed interim Mayor for Greater Manchester on 29 May 2015. He subsequently announced that he would be running to become the Labour Party's candidate for the 2017 Greater Manchester mayoral elections on 11 February 2016.<ref name="Perraudin-2016"/>

On 9 August, Andy Burnham was selected with 51.1% of the vote. Lloyd came second with 29.1%.<ref name="Guardian_090816" />

Return to the CommonsEdit

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Parliamentary portrait by Chris McAndrew, 2017

In May 2017, Lloyd was selected to stand as the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for Rochdale at the 2017 general election. He was selected after the incumbent MP, Simon Danczuk, was disallowed from standing again as the Labour candidate, owing to an ongoing internal party investigation into Danczuk's personal conduct.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lloyd was elected with a majority of 14,819.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On 3 July 2017, Lloyd was appointed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Shadow Housing Minister.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 23 March 2018, Lloyd became Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, replacing the sacked Owen Smith.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In December 2019, Lloyd became the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, replacing Lesley Laird.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Upon Sir Keir Starmer's election as Labour leader in spring 2020, Lloyd was replaced in this post by Ian Murray but continued as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Louise Haigh replaced him on an interim basis in April 2020 after he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Following his discharge from Manchester Royal Infirmary Lloyd stood down from his front bench role to concentrate on his recovery from COVID-19, but vowed to continue his work as a constituency MP.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On 15 February 2021, Lloyd undertook godparenthood for Darya Chultsova, Belarusian journalist and political prisoner.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lloyd was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for public service.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Lloyd married Judith Tear in 1974.Template:Sfn Template:Page needed<ref name=new/> They had three daughters and a son.Template:Sfn Template:Page needed<ref name=new>Template:Cite news</ref> As a supporter of Manchester United, in March 2011 he tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons for their player Ryan Giggs to be knighted.<ref name=new/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Illness and deathEdit

In January 2023, Lloyd revealed that he was undergoing chemotherapy after a recent cancer diagnosis.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He said he would not attend Parliament or attend face-to-face functions under medical advice to socially isolate and avoid meetings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In January 2024, Lloyd announced that he had chosen to end hospital treatment, following his cancer developing into an "aggressive and untreatable leukaemia".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 17 January, he died in the early morning at his home in Manchester, as a result of his illness.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was 73.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Tributes were paid to Lloyd in the House of Commons on 23 January.