Paul Andrew Foster[1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for South Ribble since 2024.

[3] He is an army veteran and "never aspired to end up in Parliament when he first entered the political fray as a borough councillor 17 years ago" according to the local Blog Preston news site.

However, during the crippling strikes at the shipyard in 1988 in response to Mrs Thatcher's targeted attacks on the UK's manufacturing industry, I ended up joining the British Army's Corps of Royal Engineers at the tender age of 18."

[5] In November 2024, Foster voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.

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