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Thomas Harris (born 20 February 1964) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician and a former journalist and press officer. He stood as a candidate for the 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election, but effectively admitted defeat on 10 December a week before the result was declared. 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 an 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 frontbench politics as shadow environment minister. ==Early life and career== Tom Harris was born in Ayrshire and raised in Beith, Scotland. He was educated at the Garnock Academy〔http://www.garnock.org.uk〕 in Kilbirnie and Napier College, Edinburgh where he was awarded an HND in Journalism in 1986. He worked as a trainee newspaper journalist with the ''East Kilbride News'' in 1986 before joining the ''Paisley Daily Express'' in 1988. He was appointed as a press officer with the Scottish Labour Party in 1990, moving to the same position with Strathclyde Regional Council in 1992. He was briefly the senior media officer with the City of Glasgow Council in 1996 before joining East Ayrshire Council later in the same year as a public relations manager. In 1998 he became the chief of public relations at the Strathclyde Passenger Executive, where he remained until his election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Harris joined the Labour Party in 1984. He was active in the Edinburgh South Constituency Labour Party and was elected as the chairman of the Glasgow Cathcart Constituency Labour Party for two years in 1998. During his time at this post, he tried to stop the closure of the ABC Muirend/Toledo cinema, but was unsuccessful. 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「Tom Harris (British politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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