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Alex Sobel Biography
Sobel was born Alexander David Sobel in Leeds on 26 April 1975. His parents, Leopold and Ruth Sobel, migrated from Israel in 1971. As a teenager, he joined anti-fascist and environmental protests in Leeds. He studied Information Systems at the University of Leeds, graduating in 1997. He joined the Labour Party in 1997.
Alexander David Sobel (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West in West Yorkshire, England since June 2017. He was first elected at the general election of 2017, succeeding Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland who had held the seat since 2005. He held the seat in the general election of 2019.
In the general election of 2005, Sobel unsuccessfully contested the Beaconsfield constituency.
He was elected as a Labour councillor for the Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in 2012, and re-elected in 2016. He led the council’s work on air pollution and climate change. Before his election to Parliament, he said that his intended priorities as MP would include protecting membership of the EU single market, and nationalising energy, water and the Royal Mail. He opposes the Trident nuclear programme.
Later, in December 2015, Sobel co-founded the activist group Open Labour. In the general election of 2017, he was elected as MP for the same constituency, and he was re-elected in the general election of 2019.
In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, he unsuccessfully contested the Leeds North West constituency. During the election, Sobel and the Leeds North West Labour Party were required to publish an apology leaflet and pay legal costs after falsely claiming the Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland voted for the Academies Act 2010.
Sobel is an Executive Committee Member for SERA, Labour’s Environment Campaign and a member of the Jewish Labour Movement. In October 2017, Sobel was elected as one of the officers of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on rare, genetic and undiagnosed conditions.
He formed an All-Party Parliamentary Group aiming to reduce carbon emissions to net zero as early as possible. He has spoken at Extinction Rebellion protests. In July 2019, Sobel became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.
On 14 February 2020, Sobel self-quarantined himself after learning that a confirmed COVID-19 pandemic case had also been in attendance at a conference eight days earlier which he and Lilian Greenwood, another Labour MP, had attended.
In April 2020, Sobel became Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism
In March 2020, Sobel called for an emergency Universal Basic Income as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic
What's Alex Sobel Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
| Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Alex Sobel Family
| Father's Name | Not Available |
| Mother's Name | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Available |
| Childrens | Not Available |
