Patrick Bosco McFadden was born on 26 March 1965 and is a British politician serving as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury since 2021.
20 Facts About Pat McFadden
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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 Keir Starmer.
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Pat McFadden was promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2021 as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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Pat McFadden is the son of Annie and James McFadden, both native Irish language speakers from the Falcarragh area in Cloughaneely, a district in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, 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 was elected as the MP for Wolverhampton South East at the 2005 general election, with a majority of 10,495, after Dennis Turner retired.
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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 when Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader but was sacked along with Michael Dugher in January 2016.
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Pat McFadden was sacked 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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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.
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Pat McFadden was in favour of a second referendum to give the people a final say on leaving the European Union.
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Pat McFadden is part of Open Britain and defended Tony Blair's pro-European speech in February 2017.
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Pat McFadden is associated with the Labour centre-left Labour First grouping and is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
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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.