Sadik Al-Hassan

Al-Hassan was born to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother.^[3] His father, a civil servant, arrived in Britain in the 1970s.^[4] Al-Hassan attended Calday Grange Grammar School in the Wirral. He graduated from the University of Bath in 2007.^[5]

Al-Hassan was a store manager at Boots 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 Cribbs Causeway as the superintendent pharmacist of the online PillTime, which has about 200,000 nominated patients all around the UK.^[6][7]

Al-Hassan was 6th on Labour's list of candidates for the South West England region in the 2019 European Parliament elections and was not elected.^[8]

He was selected as Labour's candidate for North Somerset in the 2024 general election and ran on a platform of rebuilding the NHS. He also expressed concern over pharmacies closing in the local area.^[9] He defeated the incumbent Conservative Party candidate Liam Fox, who had been the MP for the area (North Somerset and previously Woodspring) for three decades.^[10]

In November 2024, he joined a group of fellow medic MPs to call for Parliament to back assisted dying legislation.^[11]

Married with 2 children, Al-Hassan is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in the last election. As of 2025, he lives in Pill.^[12][13]