Alex Sobel

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Alex Sobel
MP
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Official portrait, 2019
Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment
Assumed office
4 December 2021
Leader Keir Starmer
Preceded by Olivia Blake
Shadow Minister for Tourism and Heritage
In office
9 April 2020 – 4 December 2021
Leader Keir Starmer
Preceded by Kevin Brennan
Succeeded by Jeff Smith
Member of Parliament
for Leeds North West
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded by Greg Mulholland
Majority 10,749 (21.8%)
Member of Leeds City Council
for Moortown
In office
3 May 2012 – 3 May 2018
Preceded by Mark Harris
Succeeded by Mohammed Shahzad
Personal details
Born Alexander David Sobel
(1975-04-26) 26 April 1975 (age 49)
Leeds, England
Political party Labour Co-op
Alma mater University of Leeds
Website alexsobel.co.uk

Alexander David Sobel (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West since the 2017 general election. He has also served as Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment since 2021.[1][2]

Early life

Born in Leeds on 26 April 1975, Sobel grew up in Beaconsfield attending Holtspur Middle School and John Hampden Grammar School. [3][4][5][6] As a teenager, he joined anti-fascist and environmental protests in Leeds.[7] After graduating in information systems at the University of Leeds in 1997, Sobel worked with social enterprises, and ran the regional body Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber from 2009 until 2017.[8][9]

Political career

Sobel joined the Labour Party in 1997.[7] In the 2005 general election, he was the Labour candidate for the Beaconsfield constituency.[7] Having previously run unsuccessfully in Leeds City Council elections from 2002 to 2007, he was elected as a Labour councillor for the Moortown ward in the 2012 council election, and was re-elected in the 2016 council election.[10][11] He led the council's work on air pollution and climate change.[12] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, he unsuccessfully contested the Leeds North West constituency. During the election, Sobel and the Leeds North West Labour Party were required to publish an apology leaflet and pay legal costs after falsely claiming that the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland voted for the Academies Act 2010.[13] In December 2015, Sobel co-founded the activist group Open Labour.[14]

At the 2017 general election, he was elected as MP for Leeds North West, gaining the seat from Greg Mulholland who represented the Liberal Democrats.[15][16] In October 2017, Sobel was elected as one of the officers of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on rare, genetic and undiagnosed conditions.[17] In 2019, he formed an All-Party Parliamentary Group aiming to reduce carbon emissions to net zero as early as possible.[18]

In July 2019, Sobel became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.[18] Sobel was re-elected at the 2019 general election with an increased majority of 10,749.[19]

In January 2020, Sobel apologised after receiving criticism for meeting with the director of Population Matters, a controversial human population control charity.[20]

In April 2020, Sobel became shadow minister for arts, heritage and tourism.[21]

In December 2021, Alex Sobel MP became a Shadow Minister in the Shadow Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.[1] As of June 2023 he is Shadow Minister for Nature Recovery and the Domestic Environment.[2]

Personal life

Sobel is married with two children and lives in Leeds.[22]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Leeds North West
2017–present		 Incumbent
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