Richard Burden
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Richard Burden MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Roads & Road Safety | |
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In office 11 October 2013 – 27 June 2016 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick (politician) |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Roger King |
| Majority | 2,782 (6.7%) |
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1 September 1954 Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of York, University of Warwick |
| Website |
Official website parliament..richard-burden |
Richard Burden (born 1 September 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield since 1992. He served as a Shadow Transport Minister from 2013 to 2016.
Burden was born in Liverpool. He attended the Wallasey Technical Grammar School; Bramhall Comprehensive School; St John's College of Further Education, Manchester; the University of York, where he obtained a degree in Politics and was the president of the Students' Union in 1976; and then the University of Warwick where he received a Master's Degree in Industrial Relations.
On leaving university he was appointed the branch organiser in North Yorkshire in the National and Local Government Officers' Association in 1979, becoming the district officer for the West Midlands in 1981, a position he held until his election to Westminster. He is a member of the Transport and General Workers Union which he joined in 1979.
He contested the parliamentary seat of Meriden at the 1987 general election, where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Iain Mills by a margin of 16,820. He was then selected to fight the Conservative-held marginal seat of Birmingham Northfield at the 1992 general election. Burden defeated the sitting Tory MP Roger King by just 630 votes and became a Labour MP. He made his maiden speech on 19 May 1992.
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