1. Daniel Joseph Carden was born on 28 October 1986 and is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton since 2017.
27 Facts About Dan Carden
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Dan Carden was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group caucus of left-wing Labour MPs until 2024, before founding the economically left-wing and socially conservative Blue Labour parliamentary caucus in 2025.
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Dan 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.
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Dan Carden resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill.
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Dan Carden is a patron of LGBT+ Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election.
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Daniel Carden was born on 28 October 1986 in Liverpool.
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Dan Carden's mother worked in the NHS for over 40 years.
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Dan Carden went on to study International Relations at the London School of Economics, graduating with a BSc, where he was chair of the university Labour Club.
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In June 2017, Dan Carden defeated Liverpool City Mayor Joe Anderson, Theresa Griffin MEP and others to be selected by the NEC to be selected as the Labour candidate for Liverpool Walton.
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In October 2017, Dan Carden campaigned for a ban on LGBT conversion therapy after a church in Anfield was exposed by a Liverpool Echo investigation for offering ritual starvation as a 'cure' for homosexuality.
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Also in July 2018, Dan Carden used two consecutive Prime Minister's Questions to call for the new Royal Liverpool Hospital to be delivered in the public sector following the collapse of Carillion.
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On 1 December 2018, Dan Carden was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Development after the resignation of Kate Osamor.
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At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dan Carden called for the debts of countries in the Global South to be cancelled so that resources could go towards healthcare not debt repayments.
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On 9 April 2020, Dan Carden became Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury following a reshuffle by new party leader Keir Starmer.
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On 15 October 2020, Dan Carden resigned from Labour's front bench in order to vote against the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, defying the party's instruction to abstain.
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In March 2022, Dan Carden delivered an address to the global assembly of parliamentarians in Indonesia.
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In November 2022, Dan Carden became Treasurer of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
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On 12 March 2023, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union's 146th Assembly in Manama, Bahrain, Dan Carden was elected President of the Board of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians.
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In September 2023, Dan Carden was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, after Samantha Dixon left the position to become a whip.
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However, on 15 November 2023, Dan Carden was among 10 frontbench Labour MPs to resign their roles in order to vote in favour of a motion tabled by the SNP calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, joining a group of 56 Labour MPs in defying the party's instruction to abstain.
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On 13 December 2023, Dan Carden was appointed Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Mexico.
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Dan Carden revealed that he was in regular contact with Blue Labour founder Maurice Glasman.
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Later that month, Dan Carden was interviewed by Jason Cowley of The Daily Telegraph, in which he criticised the ideology of liberalism for failing the victims of the scandal.
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Dan Carden revealed that he now identified himself as belonging to the "conservative left" represented by Blue Labour, explaining his political transformation as moving "not from the left to the right but from the left to the left".
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Dan Carden said that he had observed the Labour Party move away from its traditional working class base towards a liberal and progressive metropolitan elite, with "a split between liberal, progressive politics and the condition of the working class, their communities and ability to have a voice in politics", which in turn empowered the hard-right and Reform UK.
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In 2021, Dan Carden campaigned for measures such as minimum unit pricing and greater regulation of alcohol advertising.
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Dan Carden is an Ambassador for Adfam and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drugs, Alcohol and Justice.