Chris Evans (UK politician)
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Chris Evans MP |
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Member of Parliament for Islwyn |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Don Touhig |
| Majority | 12,215 (35.2%) |
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Christopher James Evans 7 July 1976 Llwynypia, Mid Glamorgan, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
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Official website Chris Evans profile at welshlabour.org.uk |
Christopher James Evans (born 7 July 1976) is a Labour Co-operative politician in the United Kingdom, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islwyn since 2010.
Chris Evans was brought up in the Rhondda valleys. He graduated with a history degree from Trinity College, Carmarthen.
Before being elected to Parliament he worked as a bookmaker, in a bank and as a trade union official. He worked as a parliamentary researcher to Islwyn MP Don Touhig for four years.
He was the Labour candidate for Cheltenham at the 2005 general election, but lost. However, at the 2010 general election he was elected MP for the safe Labour seat of Islwyn.
His maiden speech focused on affordable lending and pay day loans. Since being elected he has campaigned against fuel poverty and in January 2011 led a Westminster Hall debate and spoke out against energy price rises. He is also a campaigner for the introduction of a Presumption of Death Act. He led a Westminster Hall debate on employment opportunities for people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Evans is a member of the Justice Select Committee. In July 2012, after two years as an MP, he was promoted to the Shadow Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as Parliamentary Private Secretary to shadow Secretary of State Mary Creagh Following a reshuffle in October 2013, Evans joined Labour's Shadow Treasury Team as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Leslie.
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