Gordon Marsden
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Gordon Marsden (born November 28, 1953, Manchester) is a British Labour Party politician and, since 1997, the Member of Parliament for Blackpool South.
Despite being the MP for Blackpool South, Gordon Marsden does not reside in the constituency, choosing to live at his home in Brighton instead.
Educated at Stockport Grammar School, he went to New College, Oxford, where he got a first-class degree in Modern History. He then went on to postgraduate studies at the Warburg Institute (part of the University of London) and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
He has been a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department (2001-3) and to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2003-5).
He had previously been a tutor for the Open University and a PR consultant, as well as a public affairs adviser to English Heritage and, for twelve years, the editor of History Today magazine. He is a member of the Fabian Society, of which he was chairman in 2000-1. In 2003, he was made a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
He is openly gay and lives with his partner Richard.
[edit] External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Gordon Marsden MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Gordon Marsden MP
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| Preceded by Nick Hawkins |
Member of Parliament for Blackpool South 1997 – present |
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