Gordon Marsden
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Gordon Marsden MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education, and Skills | |
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Assumed office 11 May 2010 |
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Harriet Harman Ed Miliband Jeremy Corbyn |
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Member of Parliament for Blackpool South |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Nick Hawkins |
| Majority | 2,585 (8.0%) |
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28 November 1953 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
New College, Oxford Warburg Institute Harvard University |
Gordon Marsden (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool South since 1997.
Marsden was educated at , an independent school in the city of in Cheshire, followed by New College, Oxford where he attained 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, being a Kennedy Scholar in Politics and International Relations.
Before entering Parliament he had been a tutor for the Open University since 1994, as well as a public affairs adviser to English Heritage and, for twelve years, the editor of History Today and New Socialist magazine.
Marsden first contested the seat of Blackpool South in 1992 and won it in 1997. Once elected to Parliament, Gordon served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Irvine of Lairg in the Lord Chancellor's Department (2001–03), Tessa Jowell as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2003–05) and John Denham as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and shadow communities secretary (2009–).
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