1. Stephen Daniel Twigg was born on 25 December 1966 and is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020.
20 Facts About Stephen Twigg
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Stephen Twigg served as Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 to 2005, and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 to 2019.
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Stephen Twigg came to national prominence in 1997 by winning the seat of Defence Secretary Michael Portillo.
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Stephen Twigg returned to parliament in 2010, after he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby when longtime MP Bob Wareing retired.
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Stephen Twigg was born on Christmas Day 1966 in Enfield, London.
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Stephen Twigg was educated at Grange Park Primary School and Southgate School, a local comprehensive school, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Stephen Twigg became the youngest and first openly gay president of the National Union of Students in 1990, representing the National Organisation of Labour Students.
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Stephen Twigg worked for the UK section of Amnesty International and then for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
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Stephen Twigg was forced to give up his role as general secretary of the Fabian Society following this unexpected victory in what had been regarded as a safe Conservative seat.
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Stephen Twigg is a former chairman of Labour Friends of Israel.
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Stephen Twigg was proved correct in 2017, with the election of Bambos Charalambous, the Labour candidate, on 8 June that year.
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On 12 December 2005, Stephen Twigg was arrested in central London for being drunk and incapable in a public place and taken to Marylebone police station.
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Stephen Twigg became chairman of Progress, an independent organisation for Labour party members, and director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank which develops long-term multilateral approaches to global problems.
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Stephen Twigg worked at the Aegis Trust between 2005 and 2010, where he worked on their educational and campaigning work against genocide.
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Stephen Twigg is a patron of the Workers' Educational Association.
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Stephen Twigg was selected as the Labour Co-operative candidate for the Liverpool West Derby constituency at the 2010 general election.
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Stephen Twigg was appointed to the Labour front bench as a shadow minister in the Foreign Affairs team.
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Stephen Twigg supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.
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Stephen Twigg stood down at the 2019 general election and was succeeded by Ian Byrne, who retained the seat for Labour.
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Stephen Twigg is a patron of the Merseyside Domestic Violence Services, a patron of Kinship Carers Liverpool and a patron of the Merseyside Branch of the Motor Neurone Disease Association.