Greg Mulholland

Gregory Thomas Mulholland (born 31 August 1970) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the MP for Leeds North West.

He was an active member of the campaigning groups Trade Injustice and Debt Action Leeds (TIDAL) and Catholic Aid For Overseas Development (CAFOD).

This West Yorkshire constituency extends from inner-city Leeds through suburban and rural areas to the towns of Otley and Yeadon.

[4][5] In the 2006 Liberal Democrat leadership election Mulholland backed Chris Huhne, who eventually finished second behind Menzies Campbell.

[citation needed] As a Roman Catholic, Mulholland describes himself as holding 'pro-life' views[13] and has a strong voting record against abortion, embryology and euthanasia.

[14] Mulholland is one of three Liberal Democrat MPs to have supported MP Nadine Dorries's attempts to reduce the number of weeks at which a woman can legally have an abortion.

An article in a Liberal Democrat Focus leaflet featuring Mulholland and distributed in Leeds claimed that the government had axed plans to build a new £204 million Children's Hospital at St James's, which had been backed by all the city's MPs.

Caroline Flint, Minister of State for Public Health, described the statement as: "taking political grandstanding too far.

[22] In 2007, he was nominated for best campaigning politician in the Channel 4 Political Awards for helping to secure the release of Mirza Tahir Hussain from prison in Pakistan.

He has tabled Early Day Motions on a variety of subjects including support for small breweries, winter fuel payments for the severely disabled under 60, and against biometric data collection in schools.

In 2011 he tabled an Early Day Motion in parliament calling for a boycott of brands owned by Carlsberg due to their brewery being moved from Leeds.

He described the shock of losing his seat in the unexpected 2017 election, when "just eight weeks later I had lost my job, my career, our family income and actually to a great extent, my identity".

[26] It was subsequently announced that Kamran Hussain had been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Leeds North West.

[27] In August 2019 the album My Northern Heart, with 12 songs written by Mulholland and performed by his band Summercross, was reported to be "Set to be released in the next few weeks".

Greg Mulholland's constituency office at the Holt Park District Centre in North Leeds in 2013
Mulholland speaking on dementia during a Health Hotel session at the 2009 Liberal Democrat Party Conference.