Richard Burgon
| Richard Burgon MP |
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Burgon in the House of Commons, March 2016
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| Member of Parliament for Leeds East |
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| Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | George Mudie |
| Majority | 12,533 (32.8%) |
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| Born | 19 September 1980 Leeds, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
Richard Burgon (born 19 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician who is currently the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East, first elected at the 2015 general election.[1]
Early life and education
Burgon was educated at Cardinal Heenan Roman Catholic High School and then studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was chair of Cambridge University Labour Club.
He is the nephew of the former Labour MP Colin Burgon.
Career
Burgon was a trade union lawyer before being elected as the MP for Leeds East at the 2015 general election.[2]
Burgon is regarded as being on the hard left of the Labour Party[3] and has taken part in People's Assembly Against Austerity protests.[4] He has opposed military intervention and the bombing of Syria following the 2015 Paris attacks by alleged ISIS militants.[5]
Standing on the floor of the House of Commons in May 2015 he prefaced his mandatory oath of allegiance to Elizabeth II by expressing his support for constitutional change for an elected head of state: "As someone that believes that the head of state should be elected I make this oath in order to serve my constituents".[6]
Richard Burgon was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.[7] Corbyn appointed him as shadow economic secretary to the treasury (city minister).
In an October 2015 Channel 4 News interview Burgon admitted that despite being Shadow City Minister for more than a month he was still yet to actually meet anyone from the city of London's finance and banking industry, nor could he remember the UK budget deficit for 2015.[8][9] A month later he was still yet to hold any such meeting.[10]
References
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- ↑ Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Socialist Party (UK)
- ↑ "Protests held against UK Chancellor's spending cuts" Press TV 25 November, 2015.
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Leeds East 2015–present |
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