biography
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, N England, UK. He received his early education in special schools for the blind, and went on to study at Sheffield University, then to lecture in industrial relations and politics at Barnsley College of Technology (1973–81). A member of Sheffield City Council (1970–88), he became an MP in 1987. He was opposition spokesman for the environment (1988–92), joined the shadow cabinet (1992), and was spokesman on health (1992–4), education (1994–5), education and employment (1995–7), and chairman of the Labour Party (1993–4). He became secretary of state for education and employment in the 1997 Labour government, and Home Secretary in 2001. |
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