Tony Lloyd

**Sir Anthony Joseph Lloyd** (25 February 1950 – 17 January 2024) was a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale in 2017. Between 1983 and 1997, he was MP for Stretford. He then represented Manchester Central until 2012. Formerly Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017, and was interim Mayor of Greater Manchester between 2015 and 2017.

Lloyd was Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020, resigning on 28 April 2020, to recover from COVID-19.

On February 15, 2021, he undertook support for Darya Chultsova, Belarusian political prisoner.

In January 2023, Lloyd revealed that he was undergoing chemotherapy after a recent cancer diagnosis.

On 11 January 2024, Lloyd announced that he had chosen to end hospital treatment for an "aggressive and untreatable leukaemia". He died a week later on 17 January from the disease in Manchester, England, aged 73.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency), Rochdale
- **term start**: 8 June 2017
- **term end**: 17 January 2024
- **predecessor**: Simon Danczuk
- **successor**: 2024 Rochdale by-election, _TBD_
- **office1**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Manchester Central (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester Central
- **predecessor1**: Bob Litherland
- **successor1**: Lucy Powell
- **term start1**: 1 May 1997
- **term end1**: 22 October 2012
- **office2**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Stretford (UK Parliament constituency), Stretford
- **term start2**: 9 June 1983
- **term end2**: 8 April 1997
- **predecessor2**: Winston Churchill (1940–2010), Winston Churchill
- **successor2**: Beverley Hughes


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office**: Shadow Secretary of State
- **subterm**: 2019–2020
- **suboffice**: Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Scotland
- **subterm1**: 2018–2020
- **suboffice1**: Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland
- **office2**: Frontbencher, Shadow Minister
- **subterm2**: 2017–2018
- **suboffice2**: Department for Communities and Local Government, Housing
- **subterm3**: 1995–1997
- **suboffice3**: Foreign Office, Foreign Affairs
- **subterm4**: 1994–1995
- **suboffice4**: Department of the Environment (UK), Local Government
- **subterm5**: 1992–1994
- **suboffice5**: Department for Education,  Education and Training
- **subterm6**: 1988–1992
- **suboffice6**: Department of Social Security (United Kingdom), Employment
- **subterm7**: 1987–1988
- **suboffice7**: Department for Transport, Transport


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Knight Bachelor, Sir
- **image**: Official Portrait of Sir Tony Lloyd MP crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2021
- **office**: Mayor of Greater Manchester
- **termlabel**: Interim
- **predecessor**: _Office established_
- **successor**: Andy Burnham
- **term start**: 29 May 2015
- **term end**: 8 May 2017
- **office1**: Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner
- **predecessor1**: _Office established_
- **successor1**: _Office abolished_
- **term start1**: 22 November 2012
- **term end1**: 8 May 2017
- **office2**: Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party
- **1blankname2**: Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Party Leader
- **1namedata2**: Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Harriet Harman (acting)
Ed Miliband
- **predecessor2**: Ann Clwyd
- **successor2**: David Watts, Baron Watts, David Watts
- **term start2**: 5 December 2006
- **term end2**: 15 March 2012
- **office3**: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (United Kingdom), Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- **primeminister3**: Tony Blair
- **term start3**: 5 May 1997
- **term end3**: 28 July 1999
- **predecessor3**: Nicholas Bonsor
- **successor3**: John Battle (politician), John Battle
- **birth name**: Anthony Joseph Lloyd
- **birth place**: Stretford, Lancashire, England
- **death place**: Manchester, England
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour
- **children**: 4