Mark Hendrick MP
Labour
MP for Preston
Member, All Party Football Group
Mark was first elected to Salford City Council in 1987 and served on the
City Council for eight years. "What drove me into politics was seeing the wasted potential of people I grew up with. People who were denied fair chances because of poverty, a poor education and then the lack of a job.”
He rose through the ranks as MEP for Lancashire Central, an area which includes Preston, where he became Labour's spokesperson on economic, monetary and industrial policy, and later was elected Leader of the Socialists on the European Parliament's most powerful legislative committee, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
Mark became MP for Preston in the November 2000 By-election, following the death of Audrey Wise.
He was then successfully re-elected in June 2001 after a landslide victory with 20,540 votes.
