Stephen Twigg MP has been appointed Labour’s new Shadow Secretary of State for Education. The former schools minister was promoted from a junior foreign affairs brief to become Shadow Education Secretary He replaces Andy Burnham who has become Shadow Health Secretary,
Political Career to Date
Stephen was born in 1966 in Enfield where he attended the local comprehensive school, Southgate. He went on to study Politics & Economics at Oxford University. In 1997 he defeated the then Defence Secretary Michael Portillo to win the constituency of Enfield Southgate.
He subsequently served as the Labour MP for Enfield Southgate for 8 years and was a Government Minister for 4 years between 2001-2005. He served as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (2001-2) and as an Education Minister (2002-5).
Between 2005-2010 he worked for the Foreign Policy Centre, the Holocaust Centre and the Aegis Trust (a genocide prevention charity).
In 2010 he was elected as Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Liverpool, West Derby with a majority of 18,467. Since his election he has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Harriet Harman MP between May and September 2010 and in October was appointed as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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