Matthew Richard Allen Rodda was born on 15 December 1966 and is a British former journalist and civil servant, and a current Labour Party politician.
10 Facts About Matt Rodda
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Matt Rodda is the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency and Shadow Minister for Pensions.
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Matt Rodda attended the University of Sussex in the 1980s and trained as a journalist with Thomson.
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Matt Rodda later became a civil servant in the Department for Education, and subsequently worked in the charity sector and for the Higher Education Academy.
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Matt Rodda stood without success for election in the East Surrey parliamentary constituency at the 2010 general election, and for the Reading East parliamentary constituency at the 2015 general election.
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Matt Rodda was elected for the Reading East constituency on 8 June 2017 at the 2017 snap election.
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Matt Rodda received 27,093 votes, unseating the sitting MP, Rob Wilson of the Conservative Party, by a majority of 3,749.
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In January 2018, Matt Rodda was promoted to a frontbench position in a Shadow Cabinet mini-shuffle, becoming the Shadow Minister for Local Transport.
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Matt Rodda nominated Emily Thornberry in the 2020 Labour leadership election.
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In January 2021, Matt Rodda was appointed Shadow Minister for Pensions after Jack Dromey was promoted to be to the Shadow Cabinet Office after Helen Hayes resigned to abstain on the Brexit Bill.