Steve Reed (politician)

Steven Mark Ward Reed OBE (born 12 November 1963) is a British politician who has been the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government since 2025. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2024 until 2025. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Croydon North since a 2012 by-election.

He was Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2020 to 2021 and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice from 2021 to 2023. Before his election to Parliament, he was leader of Lambeth London Borough Council from 2006 to 2012.

Reed is gay, and married his partner in July 2022.

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