The Lord Glasman | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 4 February 2011 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | London, England | 8 March 1961
Political party | Labour |
Other political affiliations | Blue Labour |
Spouse | Catherine Glasman |
Children | 4 |
Education | Clapton Jewish Day School Jews' Free School |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA) University of York (MA) European University Institute (PhD) |
Occupation | Academic, peer |
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked.[1][2][3][4] He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.