Andrew Lewin

Lewin was born on 7 January 1987 at the original Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He attended The Bishop's Stortford High School from 1998 to 2005 before graduating from the University of York with a BA in Politics in 2008. ==Political career==

Lewin joined the Liberal Democrats in 2003, while still at secondary school. He was selected as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hertford and Stortford in October 2009. In the 2010 general election, 23-year-old Lewin, the youngest Lib Dem candidate in England, lost to Mark Prisk of the Conservative Party by a margin of 15,437 votes. In November 2010, Lewin defected to the Labour Party, citing his dissatisfaction with the decisions of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and the coalition government, specifically the trebling of university tuition fees, as his reason. In response to the 2016 Brexit referendum, Lewin founded the pro-European group Remain Labour in 2017 and ran the group until its dissolution in 2021. He endorsed Jess Phillips in the 2020 Labour leadership election. Lewin was selected as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Welwyn Hatfield by members of the constituency Labour Party in March 2023. He won the constituency in the 2024 general election, defeating the incumbent Conservative Grant Shapps by a margin of 3,799 votes. In November 2024, Lewin was elected Chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Cricket. The following month, he was elected Chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission and the all-party parliamentary group on New Towns. In April 2025, Lewin was elected to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. In September 2025, he announced his support for Bridget Phillipson in the Labour Party deputy leadership election. ==Political positions==

Brexit Lewin has previously campaigned in favour of remaining in the European Union (EU). He said that the prospect of a no-deal Brexit was "motivation enough" to form the alliance, and called on the parties to recognise that they had "more in common" instead of exaggerating their differences "for party gain". He called on Labour to make an "early manifesto pledge" to not rejoin the EU in its first term in power, saying that any proposal would "consume" a first-term Labour government and potentially "play into the hands of the Conservatives", and also stated that he thought it was "inconceivable" that all EU member states would welcome the UK back into the EU. Russia and Ukraine Lewin supported Ukraine following Russia's invasion in 2022, attending a vigil in support of Ukraine in February 2023. In February 2025, he criticised U.S. president Donald Trump for opening peace negotiations with Russia without the involvement of Ukraine, calling it "a dangerous moment" and stating that peace "should only come on terms agreed by President Zelenskyy". Israel and Palestine In February 2024, Lewin expressed support for a two-state solution and a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza war. Following the ceasefire agreement in January 2025, he expressed his support for foreign secretary David Lammy's statement, adding that there was "real hope that the cycle of violence and destruction will end". In July 2025, following prime minister Keir Starmer's commitment to recognising Palestinian statehood at the September 2025 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire, Lewin stated "what is happening in Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe and the actions of Netanyahu’s government are indefensible". ==Personal life==

Lewin lives in Welwyn Garden City with his wife and two sons. He worked at Clarion Housing Group from 2017 until his election to Parliament in 2024. At Clarion, Lewin was initially the head of external communications until his promotion in 2021 to director of communications, a role he held until becoming an MP. ==Electoral performance==

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