Ben Bradshaw

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Ben Bradshaw (2011)

Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born August 30, 1960 in London ) is a British journalist and politician . The former BBC reporter represents since 1997 as Labor - MP for the constituency of Exeter in the House and has held since 2000, various government posts in the cabinets Blair and Brown . From 2007 to 2009 he was Minister of Health and Regional Minister for the Southwest and from 2009 to 2010 Minister for Culture, Media and Sport.

Life

Youth and education

Bradshaw is the youngest of four children of Anglican clergyman Peter Bradshaw and his wife Daphne Murphy. He grew up in Norwich with two sisters and one brother - Jonathan Bradshaw , later professor of sociology at the University of York . His father was vicar at the local cathedral . Ben Bradshaw went to school at Thorpe St Andrew High School in Norwich and took part in a student exchange program with the Wilhelm-Remy-Gymnasium in Bendorf , Rhineland-Palatinate , in 1974/75 . From 1979 he studied English and German at the University of Sussex . From 1980 to 1981 he spent a few semesters at the University of Freiburg in Germany . After completing his studies, he taught English at the Technikum Winterthur in Switzerland from 1982 to 1983 before completing additional training as a journalist at the University of Durham .

Activity as a journalist

His first job as a reporter received Bradshaw in 1984 at the newspaper Exeter Express and Echo in southwestern England Exeter . The following year he moved to the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich, but went back to Exeter in 1986 to work as a radio reporter for BBC Radio Devon . In 1988 he went to Berlin as a correspondent for the BBC, where he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 . He has received various awards for his contributions on BBC Radio . From 1991 until his election to the House of Commons in 1997, he was a reporter for the BBC radio program The World At One . In 1993 he received the Sony News Reporter Award .

Political career

Ben Bradshaw was a member of the Labor Party from a young age. In 1997 he was first elected as a member of the British House of Commons. He represents the constituency of Exeter , which had previously been firmly in conservative hands for decades, and defended his parliamentary seat in the 2001, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2019 elections. On July 4, 1997, Bradshaw gave his first speech in the House of Commons. In 1998 he introduced the Pesticides Act to Parliament. In 2000 he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health. After the 2001 general election, he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the government of Tony Blair, and from 2003 to 2006 in the Ministry of Environment, Food and Agriculture . On June 28, 2007, he was appointed Minister of State in the Department of Health . He was also given the duties of Minister for the South West of England. His tenure as Minister of Health was marked by various public controversies. Bradshaw served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sports from June 2009 until the Brown administration was defeated. Since then, he has defended his seat in parliament in all elections, most recently in the general election on June 8, 2017 with a 62 percent share of the vote. In the 2016 Brexit referendum , a majority in his constituency of Exeter voted for Britain to remain in the EU. Bradshaw has always represented decidedly pro-European positions and calls for a second referendum before his country leaves the Union for good. In the general election on December 12, 2019 , in which Labor posted its worst result since 1935, Ben Bradshaw maintained his constituency with an absolute majority of 29,882 votes (53%). He blamed his party's leadership under Jeremy Corbyn for the electoral defeat and demanded that it draw the conclusions from it.

Bradshaw is openly gay . With Stephen Twigg , Angela Eagle , Gordon Marsden and David Borrow , he was one of the first openly gay MPs in the British House of Commons . On June 24, 2006, he became the first British minister ever to enter into a registered partnership . His partner is Neal Dalgleish , who works as a producer for the BBC.

Ben Bradshaw is fluent in German and is occasionally interviewed by German radio and television media on British issues.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Express & Echo: Labor's Ben Bradshaw re-elected as Exeter MP (English) ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk
  2. ^ Office of Public Sector Information: Pesticides Act
  3. ↑ Charlotte Davis: 'People's minds are changing!' Labor MP confident about prospect of second Brexit vote. In: Express.co.uk. September 25, 2018, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Exeter Labor MP Ben Bradshaw urges those behind 'political catastrophe' to take responsibility. In: DevonLive.com. December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ Mirror: MP is first to marry gay partner
  6. ↑ BBC: Minister announces gay 'wedding
  7. ↑ SundayMirror: "First gay MP wed"

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SURNAME Bradshaw, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradshaw, Benjamin Peter James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH London