Stephen Kinnock

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Stephen Kinnock (2017)

Stephen Nathan Kinnock (born January 1, 1970 in Tredegar , County Borough Blaenau Gwent , Wales ) is a British politician ( British Labor Party ). He has been a member of the British Parliament's Lower House for the Aberavon constituency since the 2015 general election.

He is married to the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt . His father, Neil Kinnock, was Labor Party Leader, Commissioner and Vice-President of the European Commission. His mother was an MEP for the Labor Party.

Childhood and youth, school, studies

Kinnock was born in Tredegar, a town in County Borough Blaenau Gwent in south Wales within historic County Monmouthshire to Glenys Elizabeth Parry and Neil Gordon Kinnock , both British politicians. He attended Drayton Manor High School, a comprehensive school (something of a comprehensive school) in Hanwell, London Borough of Ealing , London. He then studied languages ​​at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied with the aim of Master of Arts (MA) at the College of Europe in Brussels , he graduated with this title in 1993.

Professional career

Kinnock initially worked as a research assistant in the Espace Léopold for the European Parliament . In 1979 he was employed by the Development and Training Department of the British Council's Brussels office . He has held various positions within the British Council including head of the Saint Petersburg office . After the Russian authorities closed this facility, Kinnock was transferred to the British Council in Sierra Leone . In January 2009 he became Director for Europe and Central Asia at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. In August 2012, Kinnock became Managing Director at Xyntéo in London, where he headed the "Global Leadership and Technology Exchange" department.

Political career

Kinnock speaks at the Labor Party conference (2016)

In March 2014, Kinnock was nominated by the Labor Party for the 2015 general election as a candidate for Aberavon constituency in Wales. In the election on May 7, 2015, he was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Aberavon with a majority of 10,445. In 2017, the re-election took place with a majority that rose to 16,761 votes, which corresponds to 68.1% of the votes.

Kinnock supported Owen Smith in 2016 in his (failed) attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn as party chairman.

During the election campaign for the 2017 general election, he was one of four members of the House of Representatives who were critical of Jeremy Corbyn as Labor leader. The four MPs were accompanied by a team from the BBC in the context of a documentary (film title: Labor: The Summer that Changed Everything ). The documentary showed how Kinnock predicted a poor election result for Labor and his amazement at the gains.

Kinnock successfully defended the constituency in the 2019 general election . He supported Lisa Nandy's candidacy in the election for the party executive committee for 2020.

Private life

In 1996, Kinnock married Helle Thorning-Schmidt , who later became Prime Minister of Denmark. The couple met while studying at the College of Europe . They have two daughters.

In June 2010 the Danish tabloid accused BT Kinnock of tax evasion. At that time he paid his taxes in Switzerland. There was his place of work and his place of residence. On his wife's political website, however, it read "The family lives in Østerbro , Copenhagen". The couple had previously informed the media that Kinnock would spend the weekends in Denmark, occasionally until Tuesday. He sees Copenhagen as his place of residence and the center of his life and lives there with his family. According to the tabloid, Kinnock would have spent more than 183 days a year in Denmark and would therefore be taxable there.

Kinnock's wife, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, denied the allegations. However, she said the couple would ask the Danish tax authorities for a hearing. The hearing at the Danish tax authority SKAT was closed on September 17th, 2010. In the final report, SKAT stated that Kinnock was not taxable in Denmark from 2007 to 2009 because he was not domiciled in Denmark under Danish tax law.

Kinnock is an honorary member of the National Secular Society .

When his father was ennobled in 2005 and became "Baron Kinnock of Holyhead", Stephen Kinnock received the right to use the title The Honorable as the son of a baron . However, his father's title is not inheritable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with today's County Monmouthshire
  2. ↑ Russia warned over 'intimidation' BBC News of January 16, 2008.
  3. ^ Luke Harding, Julian Borger: 'Now we really have a crisis' - Russia's man in London leaving the Foreign Office yesterday . In: The Guardian . January 17, 2008 ( theguardian.com ).
  4. ↑ Peter Finn: British Unit Is Alleging 'Intimidation' By Moscow . In: The Washington Post . January 18, 2008 ( washingtonpost.com ).
  5. ↑ Daily Hansard of June 5, 2011 ( Memento of June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), House of Commons of the United Kingdom March 20, 2008.
  6. ↑ Xyntéo - GLTE Russia New Growth Partnership roundtable ( Memento from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Neil Kinnock's son Stephen selected to fight Aberavon seat . In: BBC News , March 22, 2014. 
  8. ^ Conor Pope: Full list of MPs and MEPs backing challenger Owen Smith. labourlist.org, June 21, 2016, accessed July 15, 2019 (UK English).
  9. ↑ Helena Horton: Stephen Kinnock given a dressing down by former Danish PM wife for post exit poll TV appearance . In: The Daily Telegraph . November 21, 2017 ( telegraph.co.uk ).
  10. ↑ Labor MP's former Danish PM wife gives him public dressing down in BBC documentary. In: The Independent . November 21, 2017, accessed December 2, 2017 .
  11. ^ Will Hayward: Everything we learned from the BBC's documentary on Labor's summer. In: Wales Online. November 21, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  12. ^ Aberavon parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 (en-GB) . 
  13. ↑ “ I'm proud to be backing @lisanandy because she understands how our party must change if it is to re-build trust. She has a clear, radical & realistic plan around which our entire movement can unite, and she will lead with purpose, drive, courage and dynamism. ”January 4, 2020 twitter.com , accessed January 4, 2020.
  14. ^ Profiles: Danish PM-elect Helle Thorning-Schmidt . In: BBC News . September 16, 2011. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  15. ↑ Scorer kassen i skattely. In: BT . June 23, 2010 (Danish, bt.dk ).
  16. ↑ Bright afsløret af bommert on egen hjemmeside. In: BT . June 24, 2010 (Danish, bt.dk ).
  17. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Opposition leader requests audit of husband ) In: The Copenhagen Post. June 24, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cphpost.dk
  18. ↑ Jon Swaine: Kinnock's son faces fresh tax allegations . In: The Daily Telegraph . August 14, 2010 ( telegraph.co.uk ).
  19. ^ Thorning-Schmidt eyes victory . In: Politiken . 17th September 2010 (Danish, politiken.dk ).
  20. ↑ Helena Sponge Berg: Satisfied Europeans . In: EUobserver . September 20, 2010 (English, euobserver.com ).
  21. ↑ Archived copy .
  22. ^ Honorary Associates. secularism.org.uk, accessed August 11, 2019 (British English).
personal data
SURNAME Kinnock, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinnock, Stephen Nathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Tredegar , County Borough Blaenau Gwent , Wales