David Stanley Borrow (born 2 August 1952) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from

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to 2010. He is currently a Labour Party councillor on Preston City Council and was appointed Mayor of Preston on 15 May 2019.

Education

Born in

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, David Borrow was educated at

Mirfield Mirfield () is a town and civil parish in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the A644 road between Brighouse and Dewsbury. At the 2011 census it had a population of 19,563. Mirfield ...

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and the Lanchester Polytechnic (now

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) where he was awarded a degree in economics.

Political career

He joined the Labour Party in 1970 aged 18, and in 1973 he became a trainee at the Yorkshire Bank. He was appointed as an assistant clerk at the

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Valuations Tribunal in 1975, being promoted to Deputy Clerk in 1978. He was the Deputy Clerk to the

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South Valuations Tribunal in 1981, before becoming the Clerk to The Tribunal at the

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Valuations Tribunal in 1983. David Borrow was elected as a councillor to the Preston Borough Council in 1987, and was the council leader between 1992 and 1994, and again from 1995 until his election to

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. He stood down from the council in 1998. He contested the parliamentary seat of Wyre at the 1992 General Election and he finished second 11,664 votes behind the

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MP Keith Mans. At the 1997 General Election David Borrow contested South Ribble, the seat of the former Conservative Minister of State, minister Robert Atkins. Borrow was selected to fight the seat at the last minute after the previous candidate fell ill. South Ribble was one of the many seats which was won by Labour in 1997, and David Borrow was elected to serve as the Labour Member of Parliament for the South Ribble constituency with a majority of 5,084, and held the seat until 2010. He made his

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on 3 July 1997. He joined the

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Select committee in 1999, and after the 2001 General Election he joined the newly formed Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. In 2003 he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of State at the Department for Transport

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, and remained so when his boss moved sideways to the Department for Education and Skills in 2004. He did not remain as Howells's PPS after the 2005 General Election. He was formerly a member of the

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Select Committee.

Personal life

Borrow is an openly

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. He

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publicly in 1998 to be able to speak honestly during the age of consent campaign and raise issues that are important to all lesbians and gay men. He also contributed articles to the gay rights magazine '' Outcast''. He entered into a

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with John Garland, his long standing partner, in May 2006, the first MP to do so.

Footnotes

External links

ePolitix – David Borrow
official site

* ttps://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/david_borrow/south_ribble TheyWorkForYou.com – David Borrow MPbr>David Borrow's voting record
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