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Ian Christopher Austin (born 8 March 1965) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North since 2005. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010. ==Early life== Austin was born on 8 March 1965 and was adopted as a baby by Dudley school teachers Fred and Margaret Austin. Having failed the eleven-plus to attend King Edward's School, Birmingham, he was educated at The Dudley School from 1977 to 1983. His father Fred (a Czech Jew who was adopted by an English family on the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia) was head of The Dudley School from its formation in 1975 until his retirement in 1985.〔()〕 Fred Austin, born Fredi Stiler, was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List for 2006 in recognition of his service to the communities of Dudley.〔()〕 He went on to study at the University of Essex at Colchester from 1983 to 1986.〔()〕 Keen to obtain a National Union of Journalists card, he took a job with Black Country Publishing in Netherton where his personal interest in sport, especially cycling (he is now Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group)〔http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/cycling.htm〕 and football, lead him to work as a journalist on ''Midland Sport Magazine''. Austin was elected as a councillor in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in 1991, and served until 1995. He then moved to become press officer for the West Midlands Labour Party until 1998, when he spent a year as Deputy Director of Communications for the Scottish Labour Party. In 1999 he was appointed a political advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (later Prime Minister), Gordon Brown. He held the position until his election in 2005, and was well known as one of Gordon Brown's closest lieutenants. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Austin (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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