Chris Leslie (politician)
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Chris Leslie MP |
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| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 11 May 2015 – 12 September 2015 |
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| Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Ed Balls |
| Succeeded by | John McDonnell |
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In office 7 October 2013 – 11 May 2015 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Rachel Reeves |
| Succeeded by | Shabana Mahmood |
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Member of Parliament for Nottingham East |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | John Heppell |
| Majority | 11,894 (33.8%) |
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Member of Parliament for Shipley |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Marcus Fox |
| Succeeded by | Philip Davies |
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Christopher Michael Leslie 28 June 1972 Keighley, England |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Nicola Murphy |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Website | Official website |
Christopher Michael Leslie (born 28 June 1972) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East since 2010. In 2015, between May and September, he served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the cabinet of Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman.
He was formerly the MP for Shipley from 1997 to 2005 and a minister in the Department for Constitutional Affairs from 2001 to 2005. Between 2005 and his 2010 re-election, he worked as the director of the New Local Government Network think-tank.
Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, Leslie went to Bingley Grammar School. He gained a BA in Politics & Parliamentary Studies in 1994 and an MA in Industrial and Labour Studies in 1996 from the University of Leeds.
From 1994 to 1996 he was an office administrator, going on to become a political research assistant in Bradford in 1996–97. He was elected to Parliament a month before his 25th birthday.
Leslie won the seat of Shipley as a Labour Co-operative candidate in the 1997 general election by beating Marcus Fox, the seat's Conservative MP since 1970. In the process, he overturned a 12,382 majority, to return a 2,966 majority of his own. It was the neighbouring seat to his hometown of Keighley, another seat won by Labour from the Conservatives in 1997.
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