Matt Rodda | |
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Shadow Minister for Pensions | |
Assumed office 7 January 2021 | |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Jack Dromey |
Shadow Minister for Buses | |
In office 12 January 2018 –7 January 2021 | |
Leader | Jeremy Corbyn Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Richard Burden |
Succeeded by | Sam Tarry |
Member of Parliament for Reading East | |
Assumed office 8 June 2017 [1] | |
Preceded by | Rob Wilson |
Majority | 5,924 (10.6%) |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 December 1966 |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Sussex |
Website | Official website |
Matthew Richard Allen Rodda (born 15 December 1966) is a British former journalist and civil servant,and a current Labour Party politician. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) [2] for the Reading East parliamentary constituency and Shadow Minister for Pensions. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Rodda was raised in Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. He attended the University of Sussex [8] in the 1980s and trained as a journalist with Thomson.
After graduating,he worked for the Coventry Telegraph and was also a journalist for The Independent newspaper,specialising in education news.
He later became a civil servant in the Department for Education,and subsequently worked in the charity sector and for the Higher Education Academy.
In October 1999,he survived the Ladbroke Grove rail crash,an event to which he has attributed his desire to make a contribution to the community. [5] [6] [ citation needed ]
Rodda was elected as a councillor for Katesgrove Ward to Reading Borough Council in 2011. He stood without success for election in the East Surrey parliamentary constituency at the 2010 general election,and for the Reading East parliamentary constituency at the 2015 general election. [5] [9] [10]
Rodda was elected for the Reading East constituency on 8 June 2017 at the 2017 snap election. He received 27,093 votes,unseating the sitting MP,Rob Wilson of the Conservative Party,by a majority of 3,749. [4]
In January 2018,Rodda was promoted to a frontbench position in a Shadow Cabinet mini-shuffle,becoming the Shadow Minister for Local Transport. [3]
In the general election held on 12 December 2019 Rodda was returned as the member of parliament for Reading East with an increased majority of 5,924. Rodda nominated Emily Thornberry in the 2020 Labour leadership election. [11]
In the first Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer,Rodda was appointed Shadow Minister for Buses. [12]
In January 2021,Rodda was appointed Shadow Minister for Pensions after Jack Dromey was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet Office after Helen Hayes resigned to abstain on the Brexit Bill. Rodda was replaced as Shadow Minister for Buses by Sam Tarry. [13]
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