Ben Bradshaw
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw ( born August 30, 1960 in London ) is a British journalist and politician. As a Labour MP since 1997, he represents the constituency of Exeter in the House and was from June 2009 to May 2010 Minister for Culture, Media and Sport in the cabinet of Gordon Brown.
Life
Bradshaw was born in 1960 in London. His father was an Anglican vicar at the Cathedral of Norwich. His brother is Jonathan Bradshaw, who has worked as a professor at the University of York. Bradshaw spent his school years at the Thorpe St Andrew High School in Norwich and studied at the University of Sussex, English and German. He also studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany. After completing his studies, he became in 1982 teacher of English at Winterthur Technical, a technical college in Switzerland. In 1984 he got a job as a reporter at the newspaper Exeter Express and Echo in Exeter and got a job in the following year as a reporter at the newspaper Eastern Daily Press in Norwich. In 1986 he was hired as a reporter at the BBC for the BBC Radio Devon. He was honored as a correspondent in Berlin for his contributions over the fall of the Berlin Wall on BBC Radio at different prices in 1989. Bradshaw was from 1991, reporter on the radio program The World At One on BBC, where he remained a deputy until his election. In 1993 he was awarded the Sony News Reporter Award.
Bradshaw was elected to the British House of Commons as MP for Exeter in 1997 and defended his parliamentary seat in the elections of 2001, 2005 and 2010. On July 4, 1997 Bradshaw made his first speech in the House of Commons. Bradshaw brought the 1998 Pesticides Act one in Parliament. In 2000 he was Under Secretary in the Ministry of Health. After the parliamentary elections of 2001, he was under the government of Tony Blair Undersecretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and from 2003 to 2006 in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. On 28 June 2007 he was appointed Minister of Health (Minister of State in the Department of Health ). In addition, it the responsibilities of the Minister were transferred to the South West of England. His term as Health Minister was marked by various public controversy.
In June 2009, Bradshaw became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the United Kingdom.
Bradshaw lives openly gay. He was in the British House of Commons for the first openly gay, British MPs, among others, together with Stephen Twigg, Angela Eagle, Gordon Marsden and David Borrow. On 24 June 2006 he went with his partner Neal Dalgleish, who works for the BBC as a producer, a registered partnership.