Paul Farrelly
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Paul Farrelly MP |
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Farrelly speaking at Newcastle-under-Lyme College in 2010.
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Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Llin Golding |
| Majority | 650 (1.5%) |
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Christopher Paul Farrelly 2 March 1962 Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Jane Perry |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Website | www.paulfarrelly.com |
Christopher Paul Farrelly (born 2 March 1962) is a British Labour Party politician and journalist, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2001.
Farrelly was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, the son of an Irish gas pipe-laying foreman and a former nurse. He is the first MP born and bred in Newcastle to represent the constituency for well over a century.
He was educated at the Wolstanton Grammar School (which later became Marshlands Comprehensive High School) on Milehouse Lane in Newcastle-under-Lyme, before studying at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained a BA in PPE in 1984. After his education he worked at managerial level in the corporate finance department with Barclays de Zoete Wedd, and, in 1990 joined Reuters as a correspondent and news editor. Farrelly was appointed as the deputy business editor with the Independent on Sunday in 1995 before joining The Observer in 1997 as the City Editor, where he remained until his election to Westminster.
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