Sadik Adam Al-Hassan (born 17 December 1984) is a British Labour Party politician and pharmacist who has been the Member of Parliament for

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since

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. He gained the seat from

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, a

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Early life and career

Al-Hassan was born to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother. His father, a civil servant, arrived in Britain in the 1970s. Al-Hassan attended

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in the Wirral. He graduated from the

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in 2007. Al-Hassan was a store manager at

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in Wirral for three years and worked at Well Pharmacy for over seven years as an area operations manager and a branch manager. At time of election, he worked in

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as the superintendent pharmacist of the online PillTime, which has about 200,000 nominated patients all around the UK.

Political career

Al-Hassan was 6th on Labour's list of candidates for the

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region in the 2019 European Parliament elections and was not elected. He was selected as Labour's candidate for

in the

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and ran on a platform of rebuilding the

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. He also expressed concern over pharmacies closing in the local area. He defeated the incumbent Conservative Party candidate

, who had been the MP for the area (North Somserset and previously

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) for three decades. In November 2024, he joined a group of fellow medic MPs to call for Parliament to back assisted dying legislation.

Personal life

Married with 2 children, Al-Hassan is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in the last election. As of 2025, he lives in

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* * Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British pharmacists Alumni of the University of Bath English people of Iraqi descent English people of Irish descent English pharmacists English Muslims Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Living people People educated at Calday Grange Grammar School UK MPs 2024–present {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub