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Jim Knight
The Lord Knight of Weymouth | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Tony McNulty | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Minister for the South West | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ben Bradshaw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Position abolished | ||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of State for Schools and Learning | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 May 2006 – 5 June 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister |
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| Preceded by | Jacqui Smith | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Vernon Coaker | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 6 May 2005 – 5 May 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Alun Michael | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Barry Gardiner | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 March 1965 Bexley, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour and Co-operative | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||
James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth, PC, FRSA[1] (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who served as Minister for the South West and Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset from 2001 to 2010.
After losing his seat to Richard Drax of the Conservative Party, it was announced Knight would be made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. He is now chief education and external officer at TES Global Ltd, and a visiting professor at the London Knowledge Lab of the Institute of Education in London.
- ^ "List of members' Interests, Cabinet Office, March 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
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