Richard Burgon | |
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 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Shadow Lord Chancellor | |
| In office 27 June 2016 – 6 April 2020 | |
| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | The Lord Falconer of Thoroton |
| Succeeded by | David Lammy |
| Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 16 September 2015 – 27 June 2016 | |
| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Cathy Jamieson |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan Reynolds |
| Member of Parliament for Leeds East | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2015[1] | |
| Preceded by | George Mudie |
| Majority | 11,265 (38.6%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 September 1980 Leeds, England |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Website | Official website |
Richard Burgon (born 19 September 1980) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East since 2015. Burgon served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020. A Labour Party MP, on 23 July 2024 he had the whip withdrawn and was suspended from the party for six months as a result of voting for a Scottish National Party amendment to scrap the two child benefit cap. He now sits as an Independent MP until the whip is re-established, subject to a review.
Burgon read English Literature at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was chairman of the Cambridge University Labour Club. After working as an employment lawyer, he was elected as the MP for Leeds East at the 2015 general election.
Burgon was appointed as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) in September 2015 by new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Burgon was promoted to Shadow Justice Secretary in June 2016 following the organised mass resignations in protest against the leadership of Corbyn. He was a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. He was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet in April 2020 after Keir Starmer became Labour Leader.
As of March 2021, he was Vice President of Labour CND, a group open to all Labour Party members who are also members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.[2]
- ^ "Contact information for Richard Burgon - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk.
- ^ "LabCND's 2021 annual general meeting". www.labourcnd.org.uk. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.