Pat McFadden
| The Right Honourable Pat McFadden MP | |
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| Shadow Minister for Europe | |
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In office 20 October 2014 – 5 January 2016 | |
| Leader |
Edward Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Gareth Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Pat Glass |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills | |
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In office 20 May 2010 – 7 October 2010 | |
| Leader | Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Clarke |
| Succeeded by | John Denham |
| Minister of State for Business | |
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In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Gareth Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Mark Prisk |
| Minister of State for Employment Relations | |
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In office 28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jim Fitzpatrick |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Young |
| Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South East | |
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Assumed office 5 May 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Dennis Turner |
| Majority | 8,514 (23.4%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 March 1965 |
| Website | Official website |
Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965 in Paisley) has been the member of parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. He was briefly Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and from October 2014 to January 2016 was Shadow spokesman on Europe under Edward Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.
Parliamentary career
McFadden was elected at the 2005 general election, after Dennis Turner retired. In the 2006 reshuffle he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Exclusion at the Cabinet Office. In the 2007 reshuffle he was promoted to Minister of State in the then newly created Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with responsibility for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs. In October 2008, when Lord Mandelson replaced John Hutton as Business Secretary, 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. McFadden was contemporaneously appointed to the Privy Council.
Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 election and the resignation of Gordon Brown, McFadden was named in interim leader Harriet Harman's shadow cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary. After Edward Miliband's election as Labour leader in September 2010, McFadden announced his decision to stand in Labour's shadow cabinet election but was not elected. However, when he reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet in 2014, Miliband appointed him as shadow minister for Europe. He retained his post when Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader but was sacked in January 2016.
