1. Patrick Bosco McFadden was born on 26 March 1965 and is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since July 2024.
22 Facts About Pat McFadden
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Pat McFadden attended the Cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2009 to 2010, deputy to Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Peter Mandelson.
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Pat McFadden was Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs from 2007 to 2009, and Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office from 2006 to 2007.
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Pat McFadden was sacked from the front bench by Corbyn in 2016, and remained on the back benches until he was appointed Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 2020 by Sir Keir Starmer.
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Pat McFadden was promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2021 as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and became Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 2023.
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Pat McFadden returned to the government following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations by Starmer in his ministry.
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Patrick McFadden was born on 26 March 1965 in Paisley.
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Pat McFadden is the son of James McFadden and Annie McFadden, both native Irish speakers from just outside Falcarragh, a village in County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.
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Pat McFadden went to Holy Cross RC Primary School on Calder Street and Holyrood Secondary School in Crosshill, south-east Glasgow.
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Pat McFadden attended the University of Edinburgh from '83 to '87, earning an MA degree.
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In October 2008, when Lord Mandelson replaced John Hutton as Business Secretary, Pat McFadden took on duties as his deputy in order to represent the department in the House of Commons as Mandelson is a peer and can only address the Lords.
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When Ed Miliband was elected as Labour leader in September 2010, Pat McFadden announced his decision to stand in Labour's shadow cabinet election but was not elected.
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Pat McFadden retained his post as Shadow Europe Minister when Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader but was dismissed along with Michael Dugher in January 2016.
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Pat McFadden was dismissed for what the leadership described as repeated acts of disloyalty, including when, responding to a Stop the War article on the Paris bombings, he condemned "the view that sees terrorist acts as always being a response or a reaction to what we in the west do".
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John McDonnell said that Pat McFadden's remarks, expressed in a question to the Prime Minister and interpreted as an attack on Corbyn, were an example of him undermining the leader's view.
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Pat McFadden supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.
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On 9 April 2020, Pat McFadden was appointed as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury by new party leader Keir Starmer.
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Pat McFadden was promoted to Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the November 2021 shadow cabinet reshuffle.
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In 2023, Pat McFadden ranked twenty-fifth in the New Statesman's Left Power List due to his desire to enforce fiscal discipline.
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Pat McFadden is associated with the Labour centre-right Labour First grouping and is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Pat McFadden voted in favour of the European Union Bill to trigger Article 50 and exit the European Union.
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Pat McFadden was opposed to a no-deal Brexit and supports a close trading relationship with the European Union.