Barry Gardiner
Barry Strachan Gardiner (born 10 March 1957) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent North since 1997.
Gardiner served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, Department of Trade and Industry and finally Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Gardiner served in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade and Shadow Minister for International Climate Change from 2016 until 2020.
Barry Gardiner, the son of Olympic footballer John Gardiner, was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His mother trained as a surgeon and was the first woman to win the gold medal for surgery at Glasgow University. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow (an Independent School), Haileybury and Imperial Service College and the University of St Andrews where he received an MA. He then served for two years as full-time Scottish Regional Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. As a young man, he planned to become an Episcopal priest and began identifying politically with democratic and Christian socialism, identities he has maintained.
In 1983, Gardiner was awarded a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship to study Philosophy at Harvard University under John Rawls, returning to research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for three years from 1984. He worked as a senior partner in shipping insurance and arbitration before his election to parliament.
Gardiner was elected as a councillor to Cambridge City Council in 1988 becoming the mayor of the city in 1992, the youngest mayor in the city's 800-year history. He left the council in 1994
References
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق