Tom Harris (British politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tom Harris (British politician)

British politician

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1964

Place of Birth: Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: politician, journalist, blogger, trade unionist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Thomas Harris (born 20 February 1964) is a journalist and former Scottish Labour Party politician.
He was a candidate in the 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election, but effectively admitted defeat on 10 December a week before the result was declared.
Harris is a member of the advisory board of the Reform Scotland think tank and maintains a Blairite perspective on UK politics.Harris was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Cathcart from 2001 to 2005, and for Glasgow South constituency from 2005 to 2015.
He first entered government when he was made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport in September 2006 by PM Tony Blair.
When Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in June 2007, Harris kept his junior ministerial role but, in the October 2008 reshuffle, he was sacked and returned to the backbenches.On 9 June 2009, he was the first Scottish Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown to stand down as prime minister.
In 2012, he returned to Ed Miliband's frontbench as shadow environment minister but left in June 2013 to spend more time with his family, being succeeded by Barry Gardiner.