Tom Harris

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Harris
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1964(1964-02-20)
Age	60
Birthplace	Ayrshire
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

Tom Harris Biography

Tom Harris is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on February 20, 1964 in Ayrshire, United Kingdom. Thomas Harris (born 20 February 1964) is journalist and an ex- Scottish Labour Party politician. Harris was a contender in this year’s Scottish Labour Party leadership election and subsequently conceded defeat on December 10, just a week before the outcome was announced. Harris is on an advisory panel of the Reform Scotland think tank and has an Blairite viewpoint on UK politics.

He was appointed an official of the press with the Scottish Labour Party in 1990 before moving to the same post within Strathclyde Regional Council in 1992. He briefly served as the chief media officer at the City of Glasgow Council in 1996, before being appointed to East Ayrshire Council later in the same year , as an assistant manager of public relations. He was promoted to the position in 1998. was appointed the director of public relations for the Strathclyde Passenger Executive, where was he continued until his election into his seat in Parliament in the United Kingdom.

Harris was elected to the House of Commons at the 2001 General Election for the Glasgow seat of Cathcart following the retirement of the Labour MP John Maxton. He held the seat with a majority of 10,816 and made his maiden speech on 27 June 2001. His seat was abolished following the creation of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood and the subsequent reduction of Scottish seats at Westminster. He represented the new seat of Glasgow South from the 2005 General Election until losing in 2015.

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 the October 2008 reshuffle, he was sacked and returned to the backbenches.

Tom Harris was born in Ayrshire and was raised within Beith, Scotland. He studied at The Garnock Academy in Kilbirnie and Napier College, Edinburgh, which he graduated with an HND in Journalism in 1986. He was an apprentice journalist at The East Kilbride News in 1986 before becoming a journalist with The Paisley Daily Express in 1988.

Tom Harris Net Worth

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

He is a fervent trade unionist, and was part of the National Union of Journalists from 1984 until joining UNISON in 1997. He has since joined Unite the Union. In the year 2005 to impose harsher sentences on e-criminals. In 2005, he took part in a debate about the financial support of a housing charity that demanded direct actions following the eviction as well as the exile to Albania of the Kosovan family who had sought refuge from their home in Drumchapel. He was a strong advocate and a fervent supporter of John Smith and is reported to be more than an Blairite rather than an actual Brownite. He has a well-known blog that has been awarded numerous awards. In 2009 Top Political Blog Awards run by Total Politics magazine, it was named the top blog by an MP, as well as the best Scottish blog, and top left-ofcenter blog. It was also ranked as the 8th most popular overall. He is an active part of Labour Friends of Israel.

Harris joined Harris joined the Labour Party in 1984. Harris was a member of his local party, the Edinburgh South Constituency Labour Party and was elected the Chairman of the Glasgow Cathcart Constituency Labour Party for two years in 1998. In his time in the post, he attempted to prevent the closing of the Muirend/Toledo ABC cinema however, he was unsuccessful.

Harris married Carolyn Moffat in 1998; the couple have two sons. He has another son from an earlier marriage which was dissolved in 1996. He is a Christian and enjoys astronomy and badminton. He is a fan of Doctor Who and friend of its former showrunner Steven Moffat. Harris contributed to Behind The Sofa, the collection of celebrity Doctor Who fan memories published by Gollancz in 2013. He also claims to have owned every issue of Doctor Who Magazine. He firmly opposed a female actor playing the Doctor.

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In August 2011 Harris expressed an interest, and in September 2011 confirmed on Twitter he was standing in the election to be the next leader of the Scottish Labour Party, after the publication of the Murphy and Boyack review. He described the Scottish Labour Party as having had “no new ideas in 12 years [of devolution]”, and that it must become a “party of aspiration” or it risked becoming irrelevant in the next few years.

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Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tom Harris celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.

In 2015, Harris lost his seat to Stewart McDonald of the SNP.