Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne (2017)

Liam Byrne (* 2. October 1970 in Warrington , England ) is a British politician of the Labor Party , which since 2004 Constituency Birmingham Hodge Hill as a member of the House of Commons represents.

Life

After attending Burnt Mill Academy and The Hertfordshire and Essex High School , Byrne studied Political Science and Contemporary History at the University of Manchester and during that time was also the press officer for the University of Manchester Students' Union . He then completed a postgraduate course in management at Harvard Business School with the support of a scholarship from the Fulbright program and completed this course with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). He then worked for the management consultant Accenture and for the investment bank N M Rothschild & Sons .

In the Labor Party election campaign for the general election of May 1, 1997 , he acted as an advisor to his party. On 15 July 2004, he was at a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Birmingham Hodge Hill first elected as a member of the House of Commons and heard this on since then.

Between 2005 and 2010 he was a member of the House of Commons Committee on European Examination and in May 2005 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" with the appointment of Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health.

In May 2006 he moved to the Home Office , the British Home Office , where he was Minister of State until October 2008. Initially he was responsible for immigration, citizenship and nationalities, then from May to June 2007 for immigration and asylum and finally from August 2007 to October 2008 for borders and immigrants. At the same time, he was Minister responsible for the West Midlands region between August 2007 and October 2008 .

In October 2008 Byrne was both Minister of State in the Cabinet Office and at the same time Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and then in June 2009 Chief Secretary to the Treasury . He held this office until the end of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's term in May 2010.

After the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on May 6, 2010 and the consequent loss of power, he was appointed to the shadow cabinet of the new Labor Chairman Ed Miliband and was initially the "shadow chief secretary of the Treasury", then between 2010 and 2011 "shadow- Minister in the Cabinet Office ”and has been the“ Shadow Minister for Labor and Pensions ”since 2011. In addition, Liam Byrne has been the Labor Party's Policy Review Coordinator since 2011.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 20, 2011)
• Liam Byrne at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Liam Byrne: Electoral history and profile (January 1, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 20, 2011)