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Stephen Twigg (born December 25, 1966) is a British politician and member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate for the Labour Party.He was educated at Southgate comprehensive, where he once clashed with the local Conservative MP Michael Portillo (more of whom later), and at Balliol College, Oxford. He became the first openly gay president of the National Union of Students in 1990, and was a councillor in the London Borough of Islington, nearly becoming leader.
In the 1997 election he was elected to Parliament for Enfield Southgate, the constituency in which he had been born and raised, with a majority of 1,433. There was a massive 17.8% swing to him from his Conservative opponent, Michael Portillo. For many this was the most iconic moment of the election, as Portillo was not only a cabinet minister, he was widely tipped as a future leader of the Conservative Party. Twigg was forced to give up his role as general secretary of the Fabian Society following his unlikely victory in a hitherto rock-solid Tory seat.
In the 2001 electionThe United Kingdom general election of 7 June 2001 was dubbed as "the quiet landslide" by the media. After a landslide victory of the Labour Party in the previous 1997 elections, they now had another major victory by managing to maintain their position. he held the seat with an increased majority of 5,546, second place going to Conservative John Flack . Following the 2001 election, Twigg was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons (Rt Hon Robin CookThis page is about the politician. For the novelist, see Robin Cook (novelist). The Right Honourable Robert Finlayson Cook known as Robin Cook (born February 28, 1946) is a British Labour Party politician, who was Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom f MP) and in 2002 became a junior minister in the Department for Education and SkillsDepartment for Education and Skills (DfES) is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science..
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