Mike Kane
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Mike Kane MP |
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Kane (right) with Andy Burnham during his election campaign
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Member of Parliament for Wythenshawe and Sale East |
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Assumed office 13 February 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Goggins |
| Majority | 10.569 (24.4%) |
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Michael Joseph Patrick Kane 9 January 1969 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Manchester Metropolitan University |
Michael Joseph Patrick Kane (born 9 January 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Wythenshawe and Sale East on 13 February 2014. The by-election was held following the death of Paul Goggins MP.
Kane is the son of Joseph and Kathleen (née McGirl) Kane, Irish immigrants who migrated separately to Manchester in 1955.
He attended St Aidan's Primary School in Northern Moor; he moved on to St Paul's RC High School in Newall Green before studying for his A Levels at Loreto College, Hulme, Manchester. He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA in Social Sciences in 1997 and a PGCE in 1999.
Kane was a primary school teacher, at Springfield Primary School, Sale, before working in politics.
Kane joined the Labour Party at 18. In 1991 he was elected to Manchester City Council in Northenden ward, gaining his seat from the Conservatives (the sitting councillor stood as an Independent Conservative against her replacement, but Kane had more votes than both put together). He was re-elected in 1995, 1999 and 2003, and then topped the poll in 2004 on new ward boundaries. Kane was appointed Executive Member for Arts and Leisure in 2007.
When his seat came up for re-election in 2008, he was defeated by eight votes, losing to the Liberal Democrat candidate.
Kane backed David Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership election.
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