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Michael Dugher

Michael Dugher
MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
In office
13 September 2015 – 5 January 2016
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by Chris Bryant
Succeeded by Maria Eagle
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
In office
5 November 2014 – 13 September 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by Mary Creagh
Succeeded by Lilian Greenwood
Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office
In office
7 October 2013 – 5 November 2014
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Jon Trickett
Succeeded by Lucy Powell
Labour Party Vice Chair
In office
7 October 2011 – 5 November 2014
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Stephen Timms
Succeeded by Jon Trickett
Shadow Minister without Portfolio
In office
7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Jon Trickett
Succeeded by Jon Trickett
Member of Parliament
for Barnsley East
In office
7 May 2010 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by Constituency established
Majority 12,034 (31.2%)
Personal details
Born Michael Vincent Dugher
(1975-04-26) 26 April 1975 (age 41)
Edlington, England, UK
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Joanna Dugher
Alma mater University of Nottingham
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website michaeldugher.co.uk

Michael Vincent Dugher (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley East at the 2010 general election. He has held several senior positions within the party, including Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. He is not standing at the 2017 general election.

Born and raised in Edlington, South Yorkshire, where he was educated. He also attended school in Doncaster and read Politics at the University of Nottingham. He was national chairman of Labour Students in 1997.

He was the Head of Policy of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 2000 to 2001.

From 2001–2002, Dugher was a special adviser to Transport Minister John Spellar at the Department of Transport, Local Government and Regional Affairs. After this, he worked as a special adviser to Geoff Hoon from 2002–2008. Hoon was successively the Secretary of State for Defence, the Leader of the House of Commons and the Government Chief Whip. During 2006–2007, Dugher worked as a corporate lobbyist for American multinational Electronic Data Systems (EDS), one of the government's largest IT contractors.


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