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Dan Carden
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Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017.[1]
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Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 8 June 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Steve Rotheram | ||||||||||||||
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Majority | 20,245 | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Daniel Joseph Carden (1986-10-28) 28 October 1986 (age 37) Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | London School of Economics (BSc) | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 2020,[2] and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April to October 2020.[3] He resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.[4]
Carden is a patron of LGBT Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election.[5][6] An avowed socialist, he paid tribute to his predecessor Eric Heffer in a memorial lecture in January 2019.[7] He is a former member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus but left the group in 2024.[8]