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13 Facts About Maurice Glasman

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Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman was born on 8 March 1961 and is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords.

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Maurice Glasman is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University and Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme.

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Maurice Glasman is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

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Maurice Glasman was born in Walthamstow, north-east London into a Jewish family and brought up in Palmers Green.

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Maurice Glasman's father Coleman "Collie" Glasman, a Labour Zionist, had a small toy manufacturing business that eventually collapsed while his mother Rivie Glasman, the daughter of a poor family from Stamford Hill, was a lifelong Labour supporter.

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Maurice Glasman was educated at Clapton Jewish Day School and the Jews' Free School, where he won an exhibition to study Modern History at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

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Maurice Glasman cites political thinkers from Aristotle to the Hungarian economist and sociologist Karl Polanyi as major influences on his politics.

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Maurice Glasman was a professor at Johns Hopkins University's European centre in Bologna.

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Maurice Glasman is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University and Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme.

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On 4 February 2011, he was created Baron Maurice Glasman of Stoke Newington and of Stamford Hill in the London Borough of Hackney and was introduced into the House of Lords on 8 March 2011, where he sits on the Labour benches.

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Maurice Glasman himself says that in developing the concept of Blue Labour he was inspired by the Bund, the secular Jewish Socialist Party in Lithuania, Poland and Russia founded in 1897; and the writings of 19th century German rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.

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In July 2011, Maurice Glasman called for some immigration to be temporarily halted and for the right of free movement of labour, a key provision of the Treaty of Rome, to be abrogated, dividing opinion among Labour commentators.

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Maurice Glasman is a supporter of Jewish tradition, regularly goes to a synagogue on Shabbat and is a founder member of Stoke Newington New Shul, a congregation affiliated with the Masorti Movement.

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