Jonathan Hinder

Jonathan James Hinder{{Cite Hansard|title=Members Sworn|jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom|house=House of Commons|date=10 July 2024|volume=752|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-10/debates/3D219687-E412-4D22-890A-AA2887A23F99/MembersSworn}} was born on 3 March 1991.{{Citation |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |title=It's my birthday! |date=3 March 2025 |url=https://www.facebook.com/jonathanpendleandcltheroe/posts/its-my-birthday-im-back-at-work-representing-you-in-parliament-today-but-i-enjoy/122209051724134144/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |publisher=Facebook}} His father, David Hinder, is a Labour Party activist in Ribble Valley.{{Cite news |last=Jacbos |first=Bill |date=24 April 2023 |title=Ribble Valley Tory stronghold sees Labour and LibDems seeking gains |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23471182.ribble-valley-tory-stronghold-sees-labour-libdems-seeking-gains/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}} He grew up in Downham and attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School before studying history and politics at the University of Oxford.{{Cite news |date=2024-09-11 |title=Ex-copper excited to resume public service as new seat's first MP |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24562517.mums-word-pendle-clitheroe-street-new-mp/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=}}

After university, Hinder joined the police force in 2013 where he was a police constable, sergeant and inspector in London. He mainly worked in emergency response roles.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Hinder |url=https://www.jonathanhinder.com/ |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=Jonathan Hinder |language=en-GB}} He also served as the head of the Police Now training academy during this period.{{Cite web |date=20 September 2022 |title=Latest cohort of neighbourhood police officers attested at Police Now's academy |url=https://www.policenow.org.uk/news/latest-cohort-of-neighbourhood-police-officers-attested-at-police-nows-academy/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |website=Police Now}}{{Cite news |date=28 October 2022 |title=148 police constables have completed Police Now's National Graduate Leadership Programme academy |url=https://twickenhamtribune.com/PDF/Twickenham%20Tribune%200312.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Twickenham & Richmond Tribune |page=29}}

In 2022, Hinder left the police service to pursue a career in politics. He joined the Labour Party and wrote for LabourList and the Fabian Society on crime and policing.{{Cite news |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |date=17 February 2022 |title=How Labour should respond to the crisis in policing: ideas from a former officer |url=https://labourlist.org/2022/02/how-labour-should-respond-to-the-crisis-in-policing-ideas-from-a-former-officer/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=LabourList}}{{Cite web |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |date=2 June 2023 |title=The right beat |url=https://fabians.org.uk/the-right-beat/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |website=Fabian Society}} In the 2023 Ribble Valley Borough Council election, he stood as a Labour candidate for the ward of St Mary's where he lost to two Liberal Democrat candidates.{{Cite news |last=Jagger |first=David |date=12 April 2023 |title=Local Elections 2023: Every candidate standing in Lancashire |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23448910.local-elections-2023-every-candidate-standing-lancashire/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}}{{Cite web |last=Cookson |first=Mark |title=Borough Elections 2023 - Results |url=https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/borough-elections/borough-elections-2023-results/17 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=Ribble Valley Borough Council |language=en}}

In November 2023, Hinder was selected in a ballot of local Labour members to stand as Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pendle and Clitheroe constituency at the 2024 general election.{{Cite news |last=Collis |first=Dominic |date=13 November 2023 |title=Pendle and Ribble Valley Labour members choose former police inspector Jonathan Hinder as parliamentary candidate for next general election |url=https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/politics/pendle-and-ribble-valley-labour-members-choose-former-police-inspector-jonathan-hinder-as-parliamentary-candidate-for-next-general-election-4407151 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Burnley Express}}{{Cite news |last=Farnworth |first=Amy |date=13 November 2023 |title=Former police inspector becomes Labour party candidate for Pendle and Clitheroe |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23919025.jonathan-hinder-chosen-pendle-clitheroe-parliamentary-candidate/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}} During the election campaign, Hinder criticised the governing Conservative Party for a decline in public services and promoted Labour's proposed National Care Service, green energy generation and career opportunities for young people.{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=28 March 2024 |title=Labour's Pendle and Clitheroe hopeful completes tour of seat |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24216865.labours-pendle-clitheroe-hopeful-completes-tour-seat/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}} He built support on the campaign trail by holding open forums with local residents where they could ask him questions and share their concerns.{{Cite news |last=Collis |first=Dominic |date=6 February 2024 |title=Labour parliamentary candidate Jonathan Hinder launches community events to learn more about people's issues in Pendle and Clitheroe |url=https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/politics/labour-parliamentary-candidate-jonathan-hinder-launches-community-events-to-learn-more-about-peoples-issues-in-pendle-and-clitheroe-4507628 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Burnley Express}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=7 February 2024 |title=Labour candidate gets on Pendle and Clitheroe campaign trail |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24101357.labour-candidate-gets-pendle-clitheroe-campaign-trail/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}}

At the general election on 4 July, he was elected as the new member of Parliament (MP) for Pendle and Clitheroe with 16,129 votes, a majority of 902, or 1.9%, over the incumbent Conservative MP Andrew Stephenson.{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=5 July 2024 |title=New Pendle and Clitheroe seat sees Labour cop a narrow win |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24432666.new-pendle-clitheroe-seat-sees-labour-cop-narrow-win/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}}{{Cite news |date=4 July 2024 |title=Pendle and Clitheroe results |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001422 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=BBC News}} Hinder became the first Labour politician to win the Clitheroe area since the 1945 general election.{{Cite news |last=Collis |first=Dominic |date=5 July 2024 |title=Labour gain new Pendle and Clitheroe seat from Conservatives |url=https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/politics/labour-gain-new-pendle-and-clitheroe-seat-from-conservatives-4691797 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Burnley Express}} After his victory, Hinder paid tribute to Stephenson and pledged to "work to improve the lives of every single constituent, whether they voted for me or not". He was sworn into Parliament on 10 July and made his maiden speech during a debate on railway nationalisation on 7 September 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-12 |title=Members Sworn - Hansard - UK Parliament |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-10/debates/3D219687-E412-4D22-890A-AA2887A23F99/MembersSworn?highlight=jonathan%20hinder#contribution-F50A16EB-64BB-425F-A6B3-77A6F0733D0F |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=hansard.parliament.uk |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=7 September 2024 |title=MP's maiden speech calls for rail link restoration |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx4263re9o |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=BBC News}}

In his maiden speech, Hinder called for the restoration of the Skipton–Colne Line and "serious investment in infrastructure […] if we are to see small towns in the north of England thrive and prosper". He joined the Red Wall Caucus of Labour MPs from seats in the Midlands and the North of England which calls for greater economic investment by the government into that region.{{Cite news |last=Gibbons |first=Amy |date=25 December 2024 |title=Red Wall MPs tell Starmer to get tough on immigration or we will lose our seats to Reform |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/25/red-wall-starmer-get-tough-immigration-lose-seats-reform/ |access-date=1 February 2025 |work=The Daily Telegraph}} In September 2024, he said he would prioritise the cost-of-living crisis, green investment, improving public transport and improving the NHS and other public services as an MP. He also set up a constituency office in Colne.

After his election to Parliament, Hinder voted in favour of the government's planned cuts to the winter fuel payment in September 2024.{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Kat |date=10 September 2024 |title=How your MP voted on winter fuel payment cut |url=https://inews.co.uk/news/how-mps-voted-winter-fuel-payment-cut-3269648 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The i Paper}} In November 2024, he voted in favour of Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill at its first reading, explaining that he believed the bill was "sufficiently limited in scope to reduce unnecessary suffering for those who wish to shorten a painful death, without causing undue suffering to others".{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=29 November 2024 |title=Two more East Lancs MPs back assisted dying bill in vote |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24761160.two-east-lancs-mps-back-assisted-dying-bill-commons-vote/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}} However, he withdrew his support for the bill at its second reading in May 2025 after a provision requiring approval from the High Court for assisted dying was removed, stating that more modifications had to be made to the bill to once again make it "practicable and safe".{{Cite news |last=Morton |first=Becky |last2=Francis |first2=Sam |date=16 May 2025 |title=MPs vote to allow health staff to opt out of assisted dying process |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqej092qno |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=BBC News}}

In January 2025, Hinder co-founded the economically left-wing and socially conservative Blue Labour parliamentary caucus of Labour MPs with Dan Carden, David Smith and Jonathan Brash.{{Cite news |last=Barnes |first=Hannah |date=14 February 2025 |title=Where next for Blue Labour? |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/02/where-next-for-blue-labour |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The New Statesman}} Hinder has become a leading figure in the caucus and is responsible for booking the venues of its meetings in Parliament.{{Cite news |last=Marr |first=Andrew |date=12 February 2025 |title=Labour's Reformation |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/02/labours-reformation |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The New Statesman}}{{Cite news |last=Rodgers |first=Sienna |last2=Scotson |first2=Tom |date=1 February 2025 |title=Blue Labour v Reform: The Pro-Worker, Anti-Woke Plan To Beat Farage |url=https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/blue-labour-v-reform-proworker-antiwoke-plan-beat-nigel-farage |access-date=1 February 2025 |work=PoliticsHome}} In February, he said the Labour Party had to "reconnect with our working-class base in seats like mine of Pendle and Clitheroe" by pursuing "bold, left-wing economic policies, much lower immigration, a complete rejection of divisive identity politics, and proudly reclaiming our patriotism". After Labour's poor showing in the 2025 local elections, Hinder said the party had to abandon liberalism and return to its traditional left-wing, socialist roots with a stricter policy on immigration to reconnect with its main working-class base who had appeared to shift towards Reform UK over high immigration.{{Cite news |last=Self |first=Josh |date=7 May 2025 |title=Local elections fallout highlights Labour's factional fissures |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/news-feature/2025/05/07/local-elections-labour-factions-reaction-division/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Politics.co.uk}}{{Cite news |last=Garton-Crosbie |first=Abbi |date=5 May 2025 |title=Labour ignoring working-class concerns on immigration, says party MP |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/25138252.labour-party-ignoring-working-class-concerns-immigration-says-mp/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The National}}

Ideologically, Hinder is a leading member of the Blue Labour parliamentary caucus of economically left-wing and socially conservative Labour MPs.{{Cite news |last=Shipman |first=Tim |last2=Wheeler |first2=Caroline |last3=D'Urso |first3=Joey |date=9 February 2025 |title=PM rails at 'complacent liberals' as Farage pulls the strings |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/pm-rails-at-complacent-liberals-as-farage-pulls-the-strings-l5pwvrfvb |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The Sunday Times}} He has criticised what he sees as the "hyper-liberal" ideology of the Labour Party and in 2025 said the party faced an "existential threat" because it abandoned its traditional left-wing socialist platform for liberalism and pro-immigration policies, after the party's traditional working-class voting base appeared to shift towards Reform UK over high immigration.{{Cite news |last=Penna |first=Dominic |date=4 May 2025 |title='Hyper-liberal' Labour ignoring working-class immigration concerns, says Red Wall MP |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/04/hyper-liberal-labour-ignoring-immigration-concerns/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The Telegraph}} Hinder promotes "left-wing economic arguments for low, controlled immigration" as described in 2025; according to Hinder, "high immigration is, of course, the capitalist dream" where "working-class people are generally the losers", with high immigration leading to the exploitation of British workers with increasing inequality and depressed wages caused by an influx of low-paid migrant workers.{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=14 May 2025 |title=Pendle and Clitheroe MP defends Starmer immigration speech |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/25162654.pendle-clitheroe-mp-defends-pm-immigration-speech/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}} He has argued that by adopting a stricter policy on immigration and moving back to the left, Labour would remove the appeal of challengers like Reform UK and reconnect the party to its traditional working-class base.

{{Quote|text=The Labour Party under Keir Starmer has moved in a distinctly Blue Labour direction since 2019, and the Prime Minister has my full support. But we now need to go much further to reconnect with our working-class base in seats like mine of Pendle and Clitheroe, and hundreds like it across the country. That means bold, left-wing economic policies, much lower immigration, a complete rejection of divisive identity politics, and proudly reclaiming our patriotism.|author=Jonathan Hinder in February 2025.}}

In May 2025, Hinder called for an effective freeze on immigration with the introduction of a "one in, one out" system of migration.{{Cite news |last=Eaton |first=George |date=6 May 2025 |title=The fight for Labour's future |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/05/the-fight-for-labours-future |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The New Statesman}} He also called for the government to implement an annual cap on accepting refugees and to reform the asylum system to remove "every legal obstacle" preventing the removal of illegal boats crossing the English channel, including withdrawal from the European Convention of Human Rights if necessary.{{Cite news |last=Elgot |first=Jessica |date=5 May 2025 |title=Cuts leave voters doubting Labour's ability to deliver change |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/05/labour-voters-change-winter-fuel-allowance |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Guardian}} In April 2025, he said there needed to be a deterrent against illegal immigration, but criticised the Rwanda asylum plan as "chaotic".{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Morgan |date=30 April 2025 |title=MP: 'Labour seen as party of migrants, minorities, and people on benefits' |url=https://labourlist.org/2025/04/hinder-blue-labour-immigration-debate/ |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=LabourList}} He also criticised the high numbers of international students at British universities and said that he was "not that disappointed" if reducing international student numbers would lead to the bankruptcy of universities which depended on international fees, adding that the nation should not have "anywhere near as many universities" which he described as "popping out degrees of dubious quality, of dubious value to the economy".{{Cite news |last=Parr |first=Chris |date=30 April 2025 |title=Labour MP 'not disappointed' if universities go bust |url=https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-politics-2025-4-labour-mp-not-disappointed-if-universities-go-bust/ |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=Research Professional News}} He has supported the Labour government's planned reforms to reduce immigration and the government's review of human rights legislation related to illegal immigration.{{Cite news |last=Gutteridge |first=Nick |date=22 March 2025 |title=Labour MPs tell Starmer to curb ECHR powers in UK courts |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/22/labour-mps-tell-starmer-to-curb-echr-powers-in-uk-courts/ |access-date=18 May 2025 |work=The Telegraph}}

On the economy and the state, Hinder has criticised the "Treasury Orthodoxy" and a lack of intervention from the government.{{Cite news |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |date=6 April 2025 |title=Treasury orthodoxy isn't the answer |url=https://www.politicshome.com/opinion/article/treasury-orthodoxy-isnt-answer |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Politics Home}}{{Cite news |last=Rentoul |first=John |date=25 March 2025 |title=Spring Budget: What is the Office for Budget Responsibility and why is it so powerful? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/politics-explained/obr-budget-spring-statement-office-budget-responsibility-b2721301.html |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=The Independent}} In 2025, he said the government had "given away much of its decision-making power" to unelected quangos such as NHS England, the Bank of England and the Office of Budget Responsibility, which he criticised for causing a lack of democratic accountability on economic policy.{{Cite news |last=Self |first=Josh |date=11 March 2025 |title=Labour MP says governments have 'given too much power away' to quangos |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/parliament/labour-mp-says-governments-have-given-too-much-power-away-to-quangos-in-recent-years/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Politics.co.uk}} He has criticised New Labour's decision in 1997 to grant the Bank of England independent decision-making powers over interest rates for this reason and has called on elected politicians to "take back control" over policy-making and public services.{{Cite news |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |date=20 March 2025 |title=Jonathan Hinder: 'The government does not run this country — politicians need to take back control' |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2025/03/20/jonathan-hinder-the-government-does-not-run-this-country-politicians-need-to-take-back-control/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Politics.co.uk}} He has criticised the privatisation of public services and industries since the 1980s, including water, steel, rail, mail and energy, to private firms, "[m]any of them based overseas. Their priority purely being profit". Hinder has credited privatisation with rising bills, failing services and a decline in public infrastructure, and believes that the government should nationalise key industries and services and bring them back into public ownership.{{Cite news |last=Hinder |first=Jonathan |date=22 April 2025 |title=Jonathan Hinder MP Column: It's Time to Take Back Control |url=https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/politics/jonathan-hinder-mp-column-its-time-to-take-back-control-5094265 |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Burnley Express}}

Since his election to Parliament, Hinder has campaigned for greater investment into transport and policing services and the restoration of the Skipton–Colne Line in particular.{{Cite news |last=Goodlad |first=Nat |date=21 March 2025 |title=Jonathan Hinder MP calls out slow and unreliable trains |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/25024515.jonathan-hinder-mp-calls-slow-unreliable-trains/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}}{{Cite news |last=Macdonald |first=Robbie |date=17 October 2024 |title=Skipton-Colne rail campaigners get backing of Pendle MP |url=https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/24659513.skipton-colne-rail-campaigners-get-backing-pendle-mp/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Craven Herald}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Bill |date=28 November 2024 |title=Pendle and Clitheroe ex-cop MP gets policing pledge |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24755741.pendle-clitheroe-ex-cop-mp-gets-neighbourhood-policing-pledge/ |access-date=17 May 2025 |work=Lancashire Telegraph}} He dedicated his maiden speech to this issue, explaining that the nation needed "serious investment in infrastructure, such as by reinstating the short rail link between Colne in Lancashire and Skipton in Yorkshire, if we are to see small towns in the north of England thrive and prosper". In 2025, he said investment into transport services was needed to "unlock the potential of our towns" and said a new Skipton–Colne Line would be a "game changer […] that would dramatically improve economic prospects for deprived areas across East Lancashire, well beyond my constituency".

Hinder lives in Clitheroe.{{Cite web |title=Member of Parliament (MP) |url=https://www.pendle.gov.uk/info/20083/councillors_mps_and_meps/207/member_of_parliament_mp |access-date=17 May 2025 |website=Pendle Borough Council}} He is a fan of football and cricket.

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