Alan Milburn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alan Milburn
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1958(1958-01-27)
Age	66
Birthplace	Tow Law
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Tow Law
Horoscope	Aquarius

Alan Milburn Biography

Alan Milburn is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 27, 1958 in Tow Law, Tow Law, United Kingdom. Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958) is a British Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington from 1992 to 2010. He served for five years in the Cabinet, first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003, when he resigned. He briefly rejoined the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour’s 2005 re-election campaign. He did not seek re-election in the 2010 election.

In 1997 he was appointed as Minister of State at the Department of Health, an important post in which he had responsibility for driving through Private Finance Initiative deals on hospitals. In the reshuffle caused by Peter Mandelson’s resignation on 23 December 1998, Milburn was promoted to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Milburn was thought to be a candidate for promotion within the Government, but on the day of a reshuffle (12 June 2003) he announced his resignation. He cited the difficulties combining family life in North-East England with a demanding job in London as his reason for quitting.

He returned to government in September 2004, with the title of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was brought back to lead the Labour Party’s campaign in the 2005 general election, but the unsuccessful start to the campaign led to Milburn taking a back seat, with Gordon Brown returning to take a very prominent role.

From 1988, Milburn co-ordinated a campaign to defend shipbuilding in Sunderland, and was elected as Chairman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central Constituency Labour Party. In 1990 he was appointed as a Business Development Officer for North Tyneside Borough Council and elected as President of the North East Region of the Manufacturing Science and Finance (MSF) Trade Union. Meanwhile, he won the seat of Darlington in the 1992 general election.

Alan Milburn Net Worth

Alan Milburn is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan Milburn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was educated at John Marlay School, Newcastle and Stokesley Comprehensive School. He went on to Lancaster University, where he resided at Pendle College and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Upper Second Class Honours in History. After leaving university, he returned to Newcastle where, with Martin Spence, he operated a small radical bookshop in the Westgate Road, called Days of Hope (the shop was given the spoonerised nickname Haze of Dope). He also studied for a PhD at Newcastle University, but did not complete his thesis. In 1981 he married future Labour MEP Mo O’Toole, but the couple split up in the late 1980s.

Milburn was Co-ordinator of the Trade Union Studies Information Unit (TUSIU) from the mid-1980s onwards.

He became Secretary of State for Health in October 1999, with responsibility for continuing the reduction in waiting times and delivering modernisation in the National Health Service (NHS). In 2002 Milburn introduced NHS foundation trusts, “described at the time as a sort of halfway house between the public and private sectors”. The government increased expenditure on the NHS, although the public was sceptical over claims of improved performance.

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Despite the change of government following the May 2010 General Election, it was reported in August 2010 that Milburn had been offered a role in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition as “social mobility tsar”. Although not officially politically-affiliated, the role would involve advising the government on how to break down social barriers for people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and help people who feel they are barred from top jobs on grounds of race, religion, gender or disability. Milburn provoked criticism from former Cabinet colleague John Prescott, and his former ally Andy Burnham, for advising the government. However, David Miliband defended Milburn claiming that he was serving the country and was not working for the Coalition Government.

Facts & Trivia

Alan Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alan Milburn celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.

In 2011, Milburn was asked by Andrew Lansley to chair the new clinical commissioning board, as part of the Coalition Government’s health reforms but he rejected the offer labelling the reforms as “privatization”, “cuts” and a “car crash”.