Alex Norris is the Labour MP for Nottingham North, having first been elected to Parliament in the 2017 General Election, he was re-elected in 2019 with a majority of 4,490.
He currently serves as Shadow Minister for Policing, having been appointed to the role in Keir Starmer’s September 2023 reshuffle.
Nottingham North is a young and ethnically diverse constituency in which three fifths of the population are under 45, and a quarter are from an ethnic minority. It is generally regarded as the least affluent of the Nottingham constituencies and includes the smaller town of Bulwell outside of the city. A high 63% of the electorate voted Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Alex Norris previously served as a shadow spokesperson in the Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government team from 2021 to 2023. He also served as Shadow Minister for International Development between 2019 and 2021.
Norris supported Lisa Nandy in the 2020 Labour leadership election.
Born in 1984, Alex Norris was educated at Manchester Grammar school, before attending university in Nottingham. Alex worked for UNISON as an area organiser, before being elected to Parliament. He was a councillor on Nottingham City Council between 2011 and 2017.
Norris is married and is a keen runner. He supports Manchester City Football Club.
Alex Norris is Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Football Supporters, Hajj and Umrah, Surgical Mesh, Kashmir, American Football, Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf; Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths; Domestic Violence. He is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Sport Modern Slavery and Human Rights; Baseball and Softball, Bingo, Child Contact Centres, Deliberative Democracy and the East Midlands.
Email: alex.norris.mp@parliament.uk
Website – alexnorrismp.co.uk
Twitter – @AlexNorrisNN
