Standing for The Worker's Party of Britain, Chris is a former Labour MP elected between 2010 - 2019. He was suspended from the Labour Party for booking a room in the Houses of Parliament for a screening of a film critical of Labour's conflation of critism of Israel with antisemitism, hosted by Jewish Voice for Labour.

His opponent, Margaret Beckett refused to suppport a ceasefire in Gaza and also did not voice support for suspending arms sales to Isreal as it commits genocide, or respecting the judgement of the International Criminal Court.