1. Grahame Mark Morris was born on 13 March 1961 and is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Easington since 2010.
12 Facts About Grahame Morris
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Grahame Morris was born on 13 March 1961, and was educated at Howletch Comprehensive School.
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Grahame Morris first worked as a medical laboratory scientific officer in hospitals in Sunderland.
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Grahame Morris has been involved with politics since 1987 when he became a District Councillor for Easington.
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Grahame Morris worked as a researcher for his predecessor MP for Easington John Cummings since 1997, and was Secretary of Easington Labour Party.
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Grahame Morris was one of a handful of Labour MPs newly elected in 2010 considered to be on the left of the party politically.
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Grahame Morris was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.
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Grahame Morris was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, after the 2015 general election.
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On 27 June 2016, Grahame Morris was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention.
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On 22 April 2019, Grahame Morris retweeted a video he had received, supposedly about Palestinian children, and captioned it as Israeli soldiers "caught on camera beating up Palestinian children for the fun of it".
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Grahame Morris later apologised and said it was an "honest mistake".
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Grahame Morris referenced the dangers of fake news and said he would check sources with more care in future.