Jim Murphy
James Francis "Jim" Murphy (born August 23, 1967 in Arden, Glasgow , Scotland ) is a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1997 to 2015 and, among other things, Scotland Minister in the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown was.
Life
Degree, career and member of the House of Commons
Murphy grew up in Arden, a suburb of Glasgow, and attended the Barmine Secondary School there . After his father out of work , was the family 1979 emigrated to South Africa and attended in Cape Town , the Milnerton High School . After leaving school, he returned to Scotland in 1985 and studied political science and European law at the University of Strathclyde , where he earned a living as a waiter .
During his studies he was President of the National Union of Students Scotland from 1992 to 1994 and then from 1994 to 1996 of the National Union of Students (NSU), the umbrella organization for British student associations . Although he did not graduate, he began his career in 1994 as a director at Endsleigh Insurance , a Cheltenham- based financial intermediary .
He began his political career afterwards when he became a project manager at the Scottish Labor Party, the national association of the Labor Party in Scotland, in 1996. In the general election of May 1, 1997 , he was first elected as a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Eastwood and since the general election of May 5, 2005, the constituency of East Renfrewshire . During this time he was first vice-chairman from 1997 to 2001 and then from 2001 to 2002 chairman of the Labor Friends of Israel . In addition, Murphy served on the House of Commons Committee on Public Finances between 1999 and 2001.
Between June 2001 and May 2002 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Scotland Minister Helen Liddell and subsequently Whip the Government Group in the House of Commons with the rank of Lords Commissioner to the Treasury .
Promotion to Scotland Minister and opposition politician
In May 2005 he took over a government office as “junior minister” for the first time, after he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Cabinet Office. He was then appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Labor and Pensions in May 2006, where he was initially responsible for employment and welfare reforms, and then from August 2006 to June 2007 for labor. In June 2007, he moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Minister of State , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Affairs for the Commonwealth of Nations , and was responsible for Europe until October 2008 .
As part of a government reshuffle him Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed on 6 October 2008 for Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) and thus to succeed Des Browne . He held the post of Scotland Minister until the end of Prime Minister Brown's term on May 11, 2010.
After the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010 , he was initially appointed to his party's shadow cabinet as "shadow Scotland minister" . In contrast to the national trend of his party, he himself was able to improve his own election result in these elections by 6.9 percentage points compared to the 2005 election and received 5172 votes more than in the previous election.
In October 2010, the new Labor leader Ed Miliband finally appointed him "shadow defense minister" in his shadow cabinet. In the general election in 2015 , Murphy was unable to prevail in his constituency of East Renfrewshire against the SNP candidate Kirsten Oswald and he was subsequently eliminated from the British lower house.
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of 4 March 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Jim Murphy at Hansard (English)
- Entry in They Work For You
- Jim Murphy: Electoral history and profile ( Memento April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 21, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the general election 2015
- ↑ Personal statement on the election results , accessed on October 7, 2015.
Gordon Brown | Alistair Darling | David Miliband | Jack Straw | Alan Johnson | Janet Royall | Harriet Harman | Peter Mandelson | Yvette Cooper | Andrew Burnham | Bob Ainsworth | Douglas Alexander | Edward Balls | John Denham | Hilary Benn | Ed Miliband | Jim Murphy | Peter Hain | Shaun Woodward | Andrew Adonis | Ben Bradshaw | Liam Byrne | Tessa Jowell | Nick Brown | John Healey | Jim Knight | Mark Malloch Brown | Paul Drayson .
Retired members: Jacqui Smith | Catherine Ashton | John Hutton | James Purnell | Hazel Blears | Paul Murphy | Des Browne | Ruth Kelly | Geoff Hoon | Caroline Flint | Margaret Beckett | Tony McNulty | Bruce Grocott .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murphy, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Murphy, James Francis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arden, Glasgow , Scotland |