Tom Harris (UK politician)
| Tom Harris | |
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| Shadow Minister for the Environment | |
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In office 15 May 2012 – 2013 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Fiona O'Donnell |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport |
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In office 7 September 2006 – 4 October 2008 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Succeeded by | Paul Clark |
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Member of Parliament for Glasgow South Glasgow Cathcart (2001–2015) |
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In office 7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | John Maxton |
| Succeeded by | Stewart McDonald |
| Majority | 12,658 (31.6%) |
| Personal details | |
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Thomas Harris 20 February 1964 Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Carolyn Moffat |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Napier University |
| Occupation | Former politician, journalist, and press officer |
Thomas Harris (born 20 February 1964) is a journalist and former Scottish Labour Party politician. He stood as a candidate for the 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election, but effectively admitted defeat on 10 December a week before the result was declared. Harris is a member of the advisory board of the Reform Scotland think tank and maintains a Blairite perspective on UK politics.
Harris was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Cathcart from 2001 to 2005, and for Glasgow South constituency from 2005 to 2015. He first entered government when he was made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in September 2006 by PM Tony Blair. When Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in June 2007 Harris kept his junior ministerial role, but in an October 2008 reshuffle he was sacked and returned to the backbenches.
On 9 June 2009 he was the first Scottish Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown to stand down as prime minister. In 2012 he returned to Ed Miliband's frontbench as shadow environment minister.
Tom Harris was born in Ayrshire and raised in Beith, Scotland. He was educated at the Garnock Academy in Kilbirnie and Napier College, Edinburgh where he was awarded an HND in Journalism in 1986. He worked as a trainee newspaper journalist with the East Kilbride News in 1986 before joining the Paisley Daily Express in 1988.
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