Pat McFadden (British politician)

For other people named Pat McFadden, see Pat McFadden (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable Pat McFadden MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
In office 20 May 2010 – 7 October 2010
Leader	Harriet Harman Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Lord Mandelson
Succeeded by	John Denham
Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	New position
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Jim Fitzpatrick
Succeeded by	Lord Young (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Dennis Turner
Majority	6,593 (19.1%)
Personal details
Born	26 March 1965 (1965-03-26) Paisley, United Kingdom
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	www.patmcfadden.com

Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965, Paisley) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. He was briefly Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, but failed to be elected to the Shadow Cabinet shortly after Ed Miliband became Labour Leader.

Early life and career

McFadden is the son of Annie and the late James McFadden, both native Irish language speakers from the Falcarragh area of northern County Donegal in Ireland. He went to Holy Cross RC Primary School on Calder Street and Holyrood Secondary School in Crosshill, south-east Glasgow. McFadden studied Politics at the University of Edinburgh, gaining an MA in 1988, and was chair of Scottish Labour Students in 1986-87 before becoming a researcher in 1988 for Donald Dewar, then Labour's Scottish Affairs spokesman. In 1993 he left this role to become a speechwriter and policy adviser to the Labour leader John Smith. Prior to becoming an MP he worked in several roles for Tony Blair, both in opposition and government, and was the Prime Minister's Political Secretary from 2002.

Parliamentary career

McFadden was elected at the 2005 general election, after Dennis Turner retired. In the 2006 reshuffle he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Social Exclusion at the Cabinet Office. In the 2007 reshuffle he was promoted to Minister of State in the then newly created Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with responsibility for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs. In October 2008, when Lord Mandelson replaced John Hutton as Business Secretary, McFadden took on duties as his deputy in order to represent the department in the House of Commons as Mandelson is a peer and can only address the Lords. McFadden was contemporaneously appointed to the Privy Council.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 election and the resignation of Gordon Brown, McFadden was named in interim leader Harriet Harman's shadow cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary. After Ed Miliband's election as Labour leader in September 2010, McFadden announced his decision to stand in Labour's shadow cabinet election. He was not elected.

Personal life

McFadden and his wife, Marianna, have a son and a daughter.

External links

• Pat McFadden Official website
• Pat McFadden Profile Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - From The National Archives
• Pat McFadden: Electoral history and profile The Guardian
• Patrick McFadden MP TheyWorkForYou
• BBC Politics

News items

• Hugh Muir Diary The Guardian, 19 May 2009
• Baby boy for city MP Pat Express & Star, 16 May 2009
• Unions 'too quiet on Labour wins' BBC News, 25 March 2009
• Pat McFadden interview Politics Show, BBC News, 1 June 2008
• Bus boosts minimum wage campaign BBC News, 10 January 2008

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Dennis Turner	Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East 2005–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Unknown	Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs 2007–2009	Succeeded by Lord Young as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
New creation	Minister of State for Business 2009–2010	Succeeded by TBD