Tom Gray
Tom Gray is a Labour Party candidate in Brighton Pavilion constituency in the UK Parliamentary general election.
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Tom Gray's policies
Statement to voters
Music and politics have shaped Tom's life.
Full statement
He is a renowned campaigner, a Mercury Prize-winning musician and the elected Chair of the British Association of Songwriters, Composers & Authors (The Ivors Academy). A high-profile advocate, his campaigning has led a global conversation around rights and equity in his industry.
Tom joined the Labour Party aged 15 and studied politics in Leeds before his career in music took off. He has been a stalwart of grassroots party activism, organising and volunteering over the course of his life. He works closely with the Musicians Union on their campaigns alongside the organisation he leads. As a result, he is familiar to many in Westminster as a champion of music and the arts.
He founded the #BrokenRecord campaign in 2020. Garnering the support of over 200 of the country's greatest music-makers (Sir Paul McCartney and Kate Bush amongst them), he was successful in bringing about a UK parliamentary inquiry into the music industry. He coordinated a private members bill with Kevin Brennan MP, forced a CMA study and there is now a formal process with the British government to investigate industry interventions in which Tom is a lead negotiator. He considers the forgiveness of historic debt held against thousands of musicians to be his greatest campaigning achievement.
As a founding member of Gomez, he won the Mercury Prize in 1998. Still occasionally a working musician, he scored the first series of the BAFTA-winning 'In My Skin' for the BBC and is presently commissioned to write a stage adaptation of 'Danny the Champion of the World' for the Roald Dahl Story Company.
Tom also sits elected on the Council of PRS For Music, is a director of the umbrella organisation for the British music industry, UK Music, and has previously worked with the Helen Bamber Foundation Charity on their campaigns for victims of trafficking and torture.
This statement was last updated on June 8, 2024.
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Party manifesto
Tom Gray is the Labour Party candidate. Find out more about their policies in the Labour Party manifesto.
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Tom Gray online
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- Home page
- https://www.tomgray.org/
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- contact@tomgray.org
About Tom Gray
Wikipedia
Tom Gray is a Mercury Prize-winning British songwriter, composer, and activist. He is a founding member of the rock band Gomez, the founder of the Broken Record campaign. and the elected Chair of the Ivors Academy. He is an elected Council Member of PRS For Music and sits on the board of UK Music. He is a UK Labour Party activist based in Brighton & Hove, and a member of the Musicians' Union. He was the recipient of the 2022 Unsung Hero Award presented by the Music Producer’s Guild UK.
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Tom Gray's party is the Labour Party.
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Date | Election | Party | Results | Position |
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2024 | Brighton Pavilion: UK Parliamentary general election | Labour Party | (Results due after 04 July 2024) | Position not available |
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