Barry Gardiner
Barry Strachan Gardiner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Brent North since 1997. He served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office, the Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry and finally in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Barry Gardiner, the son of a surgeon and an Olympic footballer, John Gardiner was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, Haileybury College and the University of St Andrews where he received an MA. He then served for two years as fulltime Scottish Regional Secretary of the Student Christian Movement. In 1983, he was awarded a Kennedy Memorial Trust scholarship to study Philosophy at Harvard University under John Rawls, returning to research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for three years from 1984. He worked as a senior partner in shipping insurance and arbitration for ten years before his election to parliament.
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