Michael Dugher MP |
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Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | |
In office 13 September 2015 – 5 January 2016 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Jon Trickett |
Succeeded by | Lucy Powell |
Labour Party Vice Chair | |
In office 7 October 2011 – 5 November 2014 |
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Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Stephen Timms |
Succeeded by | Jon Trickett |
Shadow Minister without Portfolio | |
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013 |
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Leader | Ed Miliband |
Preceded by | Jon Trickett |
Succeeded by | Jon Trickett |
Member of Parliament for Barnsley East |
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In office 7 May 2010 – 3 May 2017 |
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Preceded by | Constituency established |
Majority | 12,034 (31.2%) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Michael Vincent Dugher 26 April 1975 Edlington, England, UK |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Joanna Dugher |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Website | michaeldugher |
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.