Steve Reed

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Steven Mark Ward Reed (born 12 November 1963) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2024 to 2025 and as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from September 2025 to July 2026. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham and Croydon North, formerly Croydon North, since 2012. Born in St Albans, Reed was educated at Verulam School and then studied english at Sheffield University. In 1990, he began his career in the educational publishing industry, and worked for Routledge, Thomson Corporation, the Law Society and Sweet & Maxwell. Having joined the Labour party aged 16, he was elected for his party to the London Borough of Lambeth council in the 1998 election. After Labour lost control of the council in the 2002 election, Reed became the leader of the opposition. Following the 2006 election in which Labour regained control, he was appointed the leader of the council, serving until 2012. Reed unsuccessfully sought the Labour nomination for the Streatham constituency seat in 2008. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to local government. Reed was elected to Parliament for Croydon North in the 2012 by-election. The following year, he was appointed shadow minister for crime reduction under Ed Miliband. Reed continued to serve in the frontbench under Jeremy Corbyn before resigning in 2016 in protest against Corbyn's leadership. He supported Owen Smith in a failed attempt to replace Corbyn before returning to serve under him in October 2016. Reed was the shadow minister for civil society from 2016 to 2019 and then the shadow minister for children and families from 2019 to 2020....