Barry Gardiner
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Barry Gardiner MP |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade | |
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Assumed office 20 July 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Shadowing | Dr Liam Fox |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change | |
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In office 27 June 2016 – 8 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Lisa Nandy |
| Succeeded by | Clive Lewis (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) |
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Member of Parliament for Brent North |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Rhodes Boyson |
| Majority | 10,834 (20.7%) |
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10 March 1957 Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Anne Smith |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
University of St Andrews Harvard University Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
Barry Strachan Gardiner (born 10 March 1957) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent North since 1997. He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Barry Gardiner, the son of surgeon and Olympic footballer, John Gardiner was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, Haileybury College and the University of St Andrews where he received an MA. He then served for two years as full-time Scottish Regional Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. In 1983, he was awarded a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship to study Philosophy at Harvard University under John Rawls, returning to research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for three years from 1984. He worked as a senior partner in shipping insurance and arbitration for ten years before his election to parliament.
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