Out of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons new(ish) boy Sadik Al-Hassan who was elected in July 2024 surely must be among the most social media savvy.

The 40-year-old pharmacist uses Facebook almost daily to keep his fans and followers informed, in fact he tells us he uses seven social media platforms including one we had never heard of called Bluesky.

On X (formerly Twitter) some days he posts hourly but it is LinkedIn the communications tool for the ‘professional community’ which is the most active.

However, he said since being elected some of the online vitriol from keyboard warriors has forced him to publish a code of conduct on his Facebook page.

Sadik also writes a column in a North Somerset free newspaper, gives interviews on local radio and makes occasional appearances on national television.

So, what is it all about, to inform or keep his name out there we wondered when we visited Sadik at the House of Commons to review his first year at Westminster?

Since the July 2024 general election, he moved in April 2025 with his wife and two young sons (as promised during the campaign) into the constituency from Emerson Green to Pill having previously been gazumped on a house in Nailsea.

And does he love his new home and community (the famous Wurzels song with the immortal words’ Pill, Pill, I love thee still’ can be heard on YouTube HERE.

Happily, the family love their new home which he hopes soon will be close to Pill railway station and equally his boys love their new school.

The only complaint Sadik has had from his wife Katrina is with him away so much in London she now must move the bins out for collection on her own.

Luckily with the change in refuse collections by North Somerset Council that isn’t as often.

His temporary mid-week accommodation isn’t that good with high London rents and lacks a decent shower and dodgy heating; he tells us.

Growing up Sadik went to Calday Grange in the Wirral, a non-denominational, selective boys' grammar before moving to Bath for university.

The son of an Iraqi father and Irish mother he is a Catholic Muslim who enjoys an occasional gin and tonic!

The stats for his first 12-months are impressive.

People email (19,468 to date with 15,521 replies sent), telephone, text, write letters, ask over social media and lobby him at surgeries held (by appointment only for security reasons) in communities throughout the area.

We asked whether Sadik has a ready supply of stock response letters and he said no, but one person who emailed every 15-mins for days with the same query did get duplicate replies.

Sadik said: “You can get hundreds of duplicate letters on the same subject and therefore I send out duplicate replies.

“Of course, if the situation changed, I would update the letter.”

At his face-to-face surgeries during the first nine months of being elected he met 280 constituents.

And having been busy visiting schools, businesses, markets, pressure groups, council and community social events more people added to the questions he is asked about local, national and international matters.

To date (with a little help from his parliamentary office) he has dealt with more than 10,000 cases with 652 still to resolve.

Top topics are: 

•    Assisted dying

•    Gaza/Israel conflict

•    Welfare changes

•    Winter fuel allowance

•    Safer Phone Bill

On the proposed legislation for assisted dying he went on record saying ‘as a pharmacist for nearly 20 years, I have a unique viewpoint on this debate – I have seen first-hand how we need to implement improvements to end-of-life care in this country and better funded palliative systems. This Bill represents a significant and necessary step towards providing a compassionate option for those facing the end of their lives and I firmly believe that it is the right thing to do’.

Sadik is an affable politician with an encyclopaedic knowledge of current affairs and doesn’t shy away from the difficult questions.

So, we asked some: Women’s rights, abortion, capital punishment – he gave open and frank answers but much too detailed to repeat here.

In a nutshell his response was for the punishment to fit the crime, but he is not part of the ‘hang 'em and flog 'em’ brigade, and he strongly believes females should have control of their own fertility.

He said: “In Parliament I spoke about the urgent need to change the law to decrimalise abortion in England and Wales.

“Currently women face life imprisonment for illegal abortion under an outdated 1861 law.”

His background in health care influenced his stance and he wants to give support to families going through difficult decision times.

“It took a lot of soul-searching to get where I am now,” he said.

We asked was his election a shock surprise having unseated Sir Liam Fox a former Conservative minister who served from 1992 to 2024 and had a healthy majority of nearly 20,000.

Sadik didn’t seem fazed, he was on a mission to win the election, and win he did, although the right-wing vote was split between Reform and the Conservatives here in North Somerset.

He said at the time: ‘I knew, despite what some people thought, that there was a good chance to win this seat. It required a tremendous amount of effort and that is what I put in.”

He has lobbied for a simplification of chemist prescription procedures with pensions and water pollution also high on his agenda. And representing a rural community agriculture, planning, transport and policing have also occupied his time.

His maiden speech was impressive and so far, he has made 66 contributions in parliament which can be accessed via Hansard HERE.

The content ranges from swimming, dogs, support for veterans, EU, economic growth, vapes and SEND provision.

His eclectic casework includes the Long Ashton bus, Bristol Airport, Bristol Port Company and individuals needing help with pension credit, mental health and a missing passport.

To date Sadik has voted 177 times and asked 87 oral questions of which 75 were unsuccessful.

By the time it gets to the chamber decisions have already been made, it is at committee stage and in the corridors of power when you need to influence the outcome having already talked/discussed/lobbied fellow MPs and ministers, Sadik told us.

And before the summer recess he was able to announce Portishead is to get his long-awaited railway link, Nailsea Post Office in some form or another won’t close, but disabled access for Nailsea & Backwell railway station is sadly a fight for another day.

We learn Nailsea Post Office is still likely to relocate into the High Street, not re-employ current staff, and the newly negotiated franchise lease is time limited.

Post Office spokesperson Laura Tarling told Sadik’s office: “We haven’t previously shared information regarding leases on our DMB properties - the long-term plans for the branches, Including Nailsea Post Office, are still to be confirmed.  

 “We have said that the franchise partner will take over from September 2025 and provide the service from the same premises where they are currently located, while the long-term arrangements for the branch are finalised, with customers being able to continue accessing the same products and services with the same opening hours.”

And with the government National Planning Policy Framework requiring 23,475 new homes during the next 15-years to 2040 Sadik will soon have a lot more and more doors to knock on as yes, he is still out canvassing at weekends.

During our day out in London we had a enjoyable tour starting with coffee at Portcullis House where Sadik and his parliamentary assistant Alex Green have an office, a leisurely lunch with our MP in Strangers Restaurant and a peek in the ornate chapel of St Mary’s Undercroft off the historic Westminster Hall where the late Queen Elizabeth II laid in state.

And Black Rod issued us with a pass to the House of Lords public gallery which was sitting that day.

Finally, we asked about Sadik’s political ambitions – off-the-record he tipped an erudite neighbouring Labour Party MP as a future leader – but for the moment he said he is happy being a backbencher and working for his constituents.​

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