Richard Burgon

Richard Burgon MP
Official portrait, 2020
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Shadow Lord Chancellor
In office 27 June 2016 – 6 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	The Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Succeeded by	David Lammy
Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office 16 September 2015 – 27 June 2016
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Cathy Jamieson
Succeeded by	Jonathan Reynolds
Member of Parliament for Leeds East
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015[1]
Preceded by	George Mudie
Majority	5,531 (14.2%)
Personal details
Born	(1980-09-19) 19 September 1980 (age 43) Leeds, England
Political party	Labour
Other political affiliations	Socialist Campaign Group
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Website	Official website

Richard Burgon (born 19 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East since 2015. Burgon served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020.

Burgon studied English Literature at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was chairman of the Cambridge University Labour Club. After working as an employment lawyer, he was elected as the MP for Leeds East at the 2015 general election.

Burgon was appointed as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury (City Minister) in September 2015 by new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Burgon was promoted to Shadow Justice Secretary in June 2016 following the organised mass resignations in protest against the leadership of Corbyn. He was a candidate in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. He was dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet in April 2020 after Keir Starmer became Labour Leader.

As of March 2021, he was Vice President of Labour CND, a group open to all Labour Party members who are also members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.^[2]