Dan Carden
Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017. He was reelected in 2019.
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| Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 8 June 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Steve Rotheram | ||||||||||||||
| Majority | 30,520 (74.8%) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | Daniel Joseph Carden 28 October 1986 Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Socialist Campaign Group | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | London School of Economics (BSc) | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 2020, and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April to October 2020. He resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
Carden is a patron of LGBT Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election. An avowed socialist, he paid tribute to his predecessor Eric Heffer in a memorial lecture in January 2019. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.