Tom Morrison is the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheadle, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Morrison won 23,681 votes, representing 46.7% of the vote. The Conservative candidate, Mary Robinson, received 11,446 votes (22.6%), while the Labour candidate, Kelly Fowler, secured 7,909 votes (15.6%). Morrison was duly elected with a majority of 12,235.

The Cheadle constituency is located in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. The seat was held by the Conservative Party from 2015 to 2024, and by the Liberal Democrats from 2001 to 2015.

Political Career

Morrison served on the Liberal Democrat frontbench as deputy chief whip from September 2024 to September 2026.

Morrison is a member of the House of Commons procedure committee (since October 2024) – the committee responsible for considering the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of its public business. It can make recommendations to the House about the operation of the House’s Standing Orders for public business.

Morrison is listed as a member of the all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) for flexible and family friendly working and northern culture.

Morrison delivered his maiden speech on 5 September 2024 during a debate on the Great British Energy Bill.

In it, he said: “I will also keep fighting to get my residents the support they need during the cost of living crisis. This is an issue of huge importance to me. When I was 13, my mum, brother and I were threatened with homelessness because mum, who worked several jobs to make ends meet, could not afford the private rents.

“We faced relying on friends who could offer couches or spare rooms to help us…

“It was a Lib Dem councillor called David Bruce who that helped us, by fighting and getting us a council house. Because of him, we had a home, giving us the security and stability to get on in life.”

He added: “Great British Energy is a step in the right direction. I welcome the move to restore British investment in clean energy, and if Great British Energy actually brings down costs for my constituents, that will be nothing but a good thing.

“I will do all I can to help my residents in Cheadle.”

Before entering parliament, Morrison was elected as a Liberal Democrat councillor on Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in 2019. He stood down as a councillor in 2024.

Morrison also served as a city councillor on Liverpool City Council from 2010 to 2014.

Morrison previously stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Cheadle in the 2019 general election and as the candidate for the St Helens North constituency at the 2017 general election.

Political Views

The Liberal Democrats (or Lib Dems) are a liberal political party, occupying the centre to centre-left ground in British politics.

The preamble to the Lib Dem constitution begins: “The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.”

The Liberal Democrat autumn conference in 2021 ratified a policy paper entitled What Liberal Democrats Believe. The paper, an attempt to expand on the constitution’s preamble, was framed around seven “principles and values”.

The party’s core values were described as “liberty, equality, democracy, community, internationalism and environmentalism.”

Morrison was endorsed by local groups of the cross-party organisation Compass during the 2024 general election. Compass is a thinktank and campaign group. As part of its “Win as One” campaign in the 2024 election, local Compass groups backed a slate of progressive candidates who had pledged their support for electoral reform. The central aim of the initiative was to elect a “caucus” of MPs who would champion the cause of replacing the first past the post electoral system.

Morrison is listed as a supporter of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair elections – a cross-party group of MPs and peers that campaigns for electoral reform. The group’s stated aims include replacing the first past the post (FPTP) voting system with a form of proportional representation, eliminating “dark money” and “undemocratic influence” from politics, and countering disinformation.

In May 2026, Morrison signed an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, calling on the government to establish a “national commission on electoral reform”. Tabled by Alex Sobel as chair of the fair elections APPG, the amendment aimed to force a rethink of the first past the post voting system. At the time, Sobel described FPTP as “one of the biggest examples of a broken status quo in UK politics.” He invited colleagues to join this “common sense call to take a fresh look at how parliament is elected in modern Britain.”

Brexit and Europe

Customs union vote (2025): In December 2025, Morrison voted in favour of the UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate) Bill. The bill, introduced under the 10-minute rule procedure by Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson Al Pinkerton, sought to mandate the government to enter into negotiations with the European Union to establish a bespoke customs union. In total, 13 Labour MPs joined the Liberal Democrats in supporting the motion, while the majority of the party abstained.

Assisted dying

Morrison voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at both second reading (November 2024) and third reading (June 2025).

Morrison was one of 15 Liberal Democrats to vote against the assisted dying bill at third reading.

Social values and conscience issues

Abortion decriminalisation (2025): Morrison voted in favour of a backbench amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that sought to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales in June 2025. The amendment, which was passed by a majority of 242 votes, removed women from the threat of prosecution for ending a pregnancy at any stage. As an issue of conscience, MPs were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs.

Lying amendment: In January 2026, Morrison was listed as a supporter of an amendment to the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, often referred to as the “Hillsborough Law”, that would extend the proposed criminal offence of misleading the public to include MPs and peers. Luke Myer, the Labour MP behind the proposal, argued that his amendment would mean “no-one in parliament would be above the law”, adding: “If politicians deliberately lie to the public, there should be consequences.”

Myer stated: “This amendment is a proportionate, carefully safeguarded response to a real democratic risk. It is not about stifling debate or political disagreement, it is about ensuring that those who seek or hold public office cannot deliberately and knowingly mislead the public without consequence.

“The polling shows that voters across the political spectrum expect parliament to act.”

Myer’s amendment won the support of 30 cross-party MPs.

Before Politics

Morrison worked as a communications professional.

He served for three years as strategic director of Copper Consultancy’s Northern England wing. He was also an associate director with Built Environment Communications Group, based in Manchester.

Personal Life

Morrison lives in his Cheadle constituency.

Trivia

Morrison says the moment he became aware of the “positive impact [politics] can have on people’s day to day lives” was when a Liberal Democrat councillor secured a council house for his mother.

In his 2024 maiden speech, Morrison said: “That experience inspired me to get into politics, because I saw at first hand the positive impact that it can have on people’s day to day lives. Without that councillor, I can honestly say I would not be standing here today.”