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.

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