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Colin Burgon was born on 22 April, 1948 in Leeds, England, is a British Labour Party politician. Discover Colin Burgon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Colin Burgon Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Colin Burgon worth at the age of 75 years old? Colin Burgon’s income source is mostly from being a successful politician. He is from Leeds. We have estimated Colin Burgon's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Colin Burgon (born 22 April 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Elmet from 1997 to 2010.
Colin Burgon was born in Leeds to Catholic, Labour-supporting parents.
His mother, Winnie, was a school secretary; his father, Tommy, was a tailor; and his brother Terence also became a teacher.
He was educated at St Charles R.C. Junior School and passed the eleven-plus exam, enabling him to attend St Michael's Catholic College in Woodhouse.
In later life, Burgon said that alighting the bus wearing a grammar school uniform in Gipton made him aware of the class system and made him "deplore structures that inherently deny opportunity to people".
On leaving school, Burgon trained as a teacher at Carnegie College, Leeds, then studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic.
Burgon was the election agent for the Labour Party in Elmet in 1983 before being selected himself as the Labour candidate for Elmet.
Burgon was made an honorary member of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) for his support for NUM actions in the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Before he became an MP, Burgon worked with Elmet miners and their families during and after the strike.
Burgon left teaching and the NUT in 1987 to work for Wakefield District Council as a local government policy and research officer.
He was also a research officer with the GMB Union.
Burgon unsuccessfully contested Elmet in 1987 and 1992, both times coming second to the incumbent Conservative, Spencer Batiste.
In 1997, Burgon contested Elmet for the third time, finally defeating Batiste with an 8,779-vote majority.
In the House of Commons, he was elected to sit on the Northern Ireland Select committee in 2000, and the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2005.
Burgon has also taken interest in socialism in South America, particularly in Venezuela.
He was re-elected in 2001 and 2005.
In May 2007, he wrote in The Guardian in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his government's controversial refusal to renew the broadcasting licence of a television station that had been openly supportive of the coup against Chávez's elected government.
Burgon is the current chairman of Labour Friends of Venezuela.
He is on the left of the Labour Party and has vociferously criticised what he calls the "neo-liberal" policies the party pursued during the New Labour leaderships of Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Burgon worked as a history teacher at Foxwood High School (which later became East Leeds Family Learning Centre and was demolished in 2009), a deprived secondary school in the Seacroft area of East Leeds, where he was an active member of the NUT union.
Burgon stood down from Parliament in 2010.
Burgon is divorced and has one daughter.
He has taken a keen interest in opencast mining, an important issue in Elmet.