Ben Bradshaw
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The Right Honourable Ben Bradshaw MP |
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Bradshaw in 2013
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 8 October 2010 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman (Acting) Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Hunt |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Lewis |
| Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Andy Burnham |
| Succeeded by | Jeremy Hunt |
| Minister of State for Health | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Dawn Primarolo |
| Succeeded by | Mike O'Brien |
| Minister for the South West | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Jim Knight |
| Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 29 May 2002 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Stephen Twigg |
| Succeeded by | Phil Woolas |
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Member of Parliament for Exeter |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | John Hannam |
| Majority | 7,183 (13.3%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 August 1960 London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Domestic partner | Neal Dalgleish |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Website |
Official website parliament..ben-bradshaw |
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997 and was the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010. Before entering politics he worked as a BBC Radio reporter.
Bradshaw is the son of a former Anglican vicar of Norwich Cathedral. Bradshaw was educated at Thorpe Grammar School, followed by the University of Sussex where he read for a degree in German. He also attended the University of Freiburg in Germany while an undergraduate. Between 1982 and 1983 Bradshaw taught English at the Technikum, a school of technology in Winterthur in the Zurich canton of Switzerland.
Bradshaw became a reporter with the Exeter Express and Echo in 1984 and subsequently joined the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich as a reporter in 1985. In 1986 he joined the staff of BBC Radio Devon and became the Berlin correspondent for BBC Radio in 1989 and was working in the city when the Berlin Wall fell. In 1991 he became a reporter with BBC Radio's The World At One, contributing to the programme until his election to Westminster. He won the Sony News Reporter Award in 1993.
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