David Edmund Burton-Sampson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Southend West and Leigh since 2024.

Political career

Burton-Sampson was deputy leader of the Labour Group on Basildon council. He unseated the Conservative MP Anna Firth, who had won the seat in an uncontested by-election after the murder of longtime MP Sir David Amess in October 2021. In November 2024, Burton-Sampson voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise

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Personal life

He is gay and is married to his husband Mark.

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* * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Black British LGBTQ people Black British MPs English LGBTQ politicians Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies LGBTQ members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom UK MPs 2024–present {{UK-MP-stub