Alex Stafford was first elected as the Conservative MP for Rother Valley in 2019, having gained the seat off the Labour Party with a majority of 6,318.
The Rother valley constituency is found within the county of South Yorkshire and includes the town of Maltby. It was a former coal mining area whose last pit closed in 2013. The seat had previously been held by the Labour Party for over a century ever since the end of the First World War. Some 68.3% of the local electorate voted Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Stafford was appointed parliamentary private secretary at the department of trade in October 2022.
Born in 1987, Alex Stafford was educated at Oxford University. He worked in communications for Shell, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) before being elected to Parliament.
He is a strong supporter of the government’s levelling up agenda, and has championed the development of the hydrogen industry in his constituency arguing that it could become “Britain’s Hydrogen Valley”.
Stafford was elected to Ealing Council in 2014 and served as a councillor until 2020. He is married with a daughter,
Stafford supported Leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
He is considered to sit on the right of the Conservative Party, and sits on the All Party Parliamentary Groups for St George’s Day, and Flags and Heraldry.
He is a Chair of the the All Party Parliamentary Group on Algeria and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on the Falkland Islands, Kurdistan, CAFOD, Archives in History, Coalfield Communities, Critical Materials, Connected Mobility, Energy Studies, Fracking, Hydrogen, and International Religious Freedom.
Email – alexander.stafford.mp@parliament.uk
Website –www.alexanderstafford.org.uk/
Twitter – @Alex_Stafford
