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Siôn Llewelyn Simon (born 23 December 1968) is a British Labour Party politician who is a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands. He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington from the 2001 General Election to the 2010 General Election. Simon was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Further Education and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Creative Industries. In 2010, he stood down from Parliament to campaign for direct election of the Mayor of Birmingham, with the intent of running in the first election. ==Life== He was born in Doncaster to Welsh-speaking parents but raised in Birmingham, where he lived in Great Barr, Handsworth and Handsworth Wood. Simon's parents were both teachers in Birmingham. Simon attended Handsworth Grammar School where he joined the Labour Party aged 16. Simon enrolled at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1987 where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was elected President of the college Junior Common Room in his second year. After university, Simon was a research assistant for George Robertson MP for three years. After he spent a two-year stint working for Diageo in their Guinness management team, then a FTSE top 20 company. Simon then freelanced on speechwriting, policy and advice, clients included Tony Blair while in Opposition, Microsoft UK, the International Duty Free Confederation and various other charities and communication companies. He then became a journalist, working for ''The Daily Telegraph'', the ''Daily Express'' and the ''News of the World''. He was also an associate editor at ''The Spectator''. His columns varied from restaurant reviews to politics. In the 1992 election campaign he ran the European desk for the Labour Party, and then, during the 1997 election campaign, the foreign press department at Labour Party headquarters. In the year 2000 he appeared on Series 20, Episode 4 of ''Have I Got News for You'' alongside guest comedian Rich Hall.〔(http://www.1channel.ch/tv-10173-Have-I-Got-News-for-You/season-20-episode-4)〕 Simon appeared as a judge in St Edmund Campion Catholic School's production of ''The X Factor'' in 2007, and also appeared in Series 2 on 25 April 2008. 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「Siôn Simon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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