Michael Vincent Dugher is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament for Barnsley East from 2010 to 2017.
18 Facts About Michael Dugher
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Michael Dugher attended The McAuley School in Doncaster and received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of Nottingham.
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Michael Dugher served as national chairman of Labour Students in 1997.
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Michael Dugher was the Head of Policy of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 2000 to 2001.
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From 2001 to 2002, Michael Dugher was a special adviser to Transport Minister John Spellar at the Department of Transport, Local Government and Regional Affairs.
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Michael Dugher worked at 10 Downing Street from 2008 to 2010 as the Chief Political Spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Michael Dugher was a Shadow Minister of Defence before becoming the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition.
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Michael Dugher has been an Executive Committee member of the British-American Parliamentary Group.
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Michael Dugher was a supporter of Tom Watson for the deputy leadership election.
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In September 2015, Michael Dugher replaced Chris Bryant as Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Michael Dugher did not take telephone calls from Corbyn the previous day.
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Michael Dugher said that Corbyn did not like an article he had written for the New Statesman, saying "I took a decision to speak out and I paid a price for it".
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Michael Dugher has held the post of Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Michael Dugher gave a keynote speech at the 'We Believe in Israel' conference, where he said "Each time I visit Israel, my admiration for that great country grows".
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Michael Dugher criticised Labour's response to the 2014 Gaza conflict and called the then Labour leader Ed Miliband's decision to whip Labour MPs to vote for a motion recognising the State of Palestine as "catastrophic".
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Michael Dugher abstained in the parliament vote on this matter, despite a three line whip and being a shadow cabinet minister.
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Michael Dugher has regularly engaged in debate with Matt Zarb-Cousin, a former Labour activist and recovering gambling addict.
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The exchange was later reported by The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, adding that Michael Dugher had attacked a first of its kind, peer-reviewed study into gambling behaviour published by the academic journal Nature Human Behaviour, calling it 'condescending'.