Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne ( born October 2, 1970 in Warrington, England ) is a British Labour Party politician, who the constituency Birmingham Hodge Hill represents a member of the House of Commons since 2004.

Life

After visiting the Burnt Mill Academy and The Hertfordshire and Essex High School Byrne studied Political Science and History at the University of Manchester and during this time was also spokesman of the student council ( University of Manchester Students ' Union ). He then graduated with support by a grant from the Fulbright program a postgraduate degree in Management at the Harvard Business School and graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA ) from. After that, he worked at the management consultant Accenture worked well at the investment bank NM Rothschild & Sons.

During the election campaign the Labour Party at the general election of 1 May 1997, he served as an advisor of his party. On 15 July 2004 he was first elected as a member of the House of Commons in a by-election ( By-election ) in the constituency of Birmingham Hodge Hill and heard this since participated.

Between 2005 and 2010 he was a member of the House Committee on the European test and took over in May 2005, his first government post as " junior ministers " with his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health and held this position until May 2006.

In May 2006 he moved to the Home Office, the UK Home Office, where he worked as Minister of State to October 2008. First, he was in charge of immigration, citizenship and nationality, then to June 2007 for immigration and asylum, and last from August 2007 to October 2008 for borders and immigrants. May At the same time he was between August 2007 to October 2008 the responsible Minister for the West Midlands region.

In October 2008, Byrne was both Minister of State at the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of both Lancaster and then in June 2009, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Secretary to the Treasury). He held until the end of the term of office of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in May 2010 this office.

After the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on 6 May 2010 and the consequent loss of power, he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet of the new Labour leader Ed Miliband and was initially " Shadow Chief Secretary of the Treasury ", then between 2010 and 2011 " Shadow Minister in the Cabinet Office " and since 2011" shadow Minister for Work and Pensions. " In addition, Liam Byrne since 2011 coordinator for the review of the Labour Party policy.