Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 12 May 2010 – 11 September 2012
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Succeeded by
Lorely Burt
Member of Parliament for Burnley
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Kitty Ussher
Succeeded by
Julie Cooper
Personal details
Born
(1943-09-06) 6 September 1943 (age 80)[1] Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England
Political party
Liberal Democrats
Gordon Birtwistle (born 6 September 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former MP. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Burnley, England, from May 2010 to May 2015. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2010 to 2012.[1][2] From 2013, he was Government Apprenticeship Ambassador to Business.
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with Andy Tatchell becoming group leader. Liberal Democrat leader GordonBirtwistle emerged as the council leader after a coalition formed between the...
platform of support for the campaign. In December 2011, Burnley MP GordonBirtwistle claimed a partial victory, with news of a new £12m emergency unit...
David Ward 365 0.9% Brent Central Sarah Teather 1,345 3.0% Burnley GordonBirtwistle 1,818 4.3% Manchester, Withington John Leech 1,894 4.2% East Dunbartonshire...
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September 2010, Ed Miliband won a Labour Party leadership vote to succeed Gordon Brown as permanent Leader of the Opposition. In the House of Lords, Baroness...
(Workers) Labour Peter Dowd Burnley Antony Higginbotham Oliver Ryan GordonBirtwistle Nathan Thomas McCollum Scott Cunliffe Conservative Antony Higginbotham...
the shire county. The group counts at least nine MPs (Jake Berry, GordonBirtwistle, Simon Danczuk, Nigel Evans, Lindsay Hoyle, John Leech, David Nuttall...
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