Gordon Marsden (born
November 28,
1953,
Manchester) is a
British Labour Party politician and, since 1997, the
Member of Parliament for
Blackpool South.
Early life
Educated at the independent
Stockport Grammar School, he went to
New College, Oxford, where he got a
first-class degree in Modern History. He then went on to postgraduate studies at the
Warburg Institute (part of the
University of London) and
Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government, being a
Kennedy Scholar in Politics and International Relations.
Before entering parliament he had been a tutor for the
Open University since 1994 and a PR consultant, as well as a public affairs adviser to
English Heritage and, for twelve years, the editor of
History Today and
New Socialist magazine.
Parliamentary career
He contested Blackpool South in 1992. He is currently
Parliamentary Private Secretary to
Michael Wills at the
Ministry of Justice since
28 June 2007. He had previously been a
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Lord Chancellor's Department (2001-3) and to the
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2003-5).
He is a member of the
Fabian Society, of which he was chairman in 2000-1. In 2003, he was made a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of
St Antony's College, Oxford.
Personal life
He is openly gay and lives with his partner Richard.
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Gordon Marsden splits his time between his flat in Blackpool and his home in Brighton.
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