Stephen Twigg

Stephen Twigg ( born December 25, 1966 in Enfield, London ) is a British Labour Party politician.

Life

Twigg was born in 1966 in Enfield, London. He attended the Grange Park Primary School and Southgate Secondary School. At Balliol College, Oxford Twigg studied philosophy, politics and economics. In 1990 he was president of the student organization National Union of Students.

From May 1997 to May 2005 he was a member of the British House of Commons for the electoral district of Enfield Southgate. He won the constituency in 1997 against the conservative politician Michael Portillo and lost the 2005 election campaign against David Burrowes.

Twigg lives openly homosexual. Twigg is jointly owned with David Borrow, Ben Bradshaw, Angela Eagle and Gordon Marsden of the first openly gay MPs in the House of Commons.