Dan Carden | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Official portrait, 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 8 June 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Steve Rotheram | ||||||||||||||
Majority | 20,245 (54.9%) | ||||||||||||||
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Personal details | |||||||||||||||
Born | Daniel Joseph Carden 28 October 1986 Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | London School of Economics (BSc) | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017.[1] A member of the Labour Party, Carden identifies as a socialist and as belonging to the party's conservative left. He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group caucus of left-wing Labour MPs until 2024, before founding the economically left-wing and socially conservative Blue Labour parliamentary caucus in 2025.
Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 2020,[2] and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April to October 2020.[3] He resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.[4]
Carden is a patron of LGBT+ Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election.[5][6] An avowed socialist, he paid tribute to his predecessor Eric Heffer in a memorial lecture in January 2019.[7]
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