John Cryer
British politician
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| 2024 | Appointed as a lord-in-waiting in the House of Lords. |
| August 15 2024 | Created Baron Cryer, of Leyton in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, following a life peerage nomination in the 2024 Dissolution Honours. |
| May 27 2024 | Announced his intention to stand down as an MP at the 2024 general election. |
| 2019 | John Cryer and Ellie Reeves welcomed their second son. |
| July 2019 | Condemned his party's attack on former staff whistleblowers who appeared in the BBC Panorama programme 'Is Labour Antisemitic?', calling it 'a gross misjudgment'. |
| June 8 2017 | Re-elected as MP for the Leyton and Wanstead constituency with 69.8% of the vote. |
| 2015 | John Cryer and Ellie Reeves had their first son born. |
| 2015 | Cryer resigned from the Socialist Campaign Group, marking a shift in his political positioning within the Labour Party. |
| May 8 2015 | Re-elected as MP for the Leyton and Wanstead constituency with 58.6% of the vote. |
| February 9 2015 | Cryer was elected unopposed as the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, succeeding Dave Watts. |
| January 2015 | John Cryer was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband calling for the Labour Party to oppose austerity, bring rail franchises into public ownership, and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements. |
| 2010 | Elected as MP for Leyton and Wanstead, returning to the House of Commons. |
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