Stephen Twigg

Stephen Twigg
Official portrait, 2017
8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2020
Preceded by	Karimulla Akbar Khan
Chair of the International Development Committee
In office 19 May 2015 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Malcolm Bruce
Succeeded by	Sarah Champion
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013
Leader	Ed Miliband
Preceded by	Andy Burnham
Succeeded by	Tristram Hunt
Minister of State for School Standards
In office 16 December 2004 – 5 May 2005
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	David Miliband
Succeeded by	Jacqui Smith
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
In office 11 June 2001 – 29 May 2002
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Leader	Robin Cook
Preceded by	Paddy Tipping
Succeeded by	Ben Bradshaw
Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby
In office 6 May 2010 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Bob Wareing
Succeeded by	Ian Byrne
Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate
In office 1 May 1997 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Michael Portillo
Succeeded by	David Burrowes
44th President of the National Union of Students
In office 1990–1992
Preceded by	Maeve Sherlock
Succeeded by	Lorna Fitzsimons
Personal details
Born	(1966-12-25) 25 December 1966 (age 57) Enfield, London, England
Political party	Labour Co-op
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Stephen Twigg (born 25 December 1966) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has served as the 8th Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association since August 2020. He served as Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 1997 to 2005, and for Liverpool West Derby from 2010 to 2019.

He came to national prominence in 1997 by winning the seat of Defence Secretary Michael Portillo. Twigg was made the Minister of State for School Standards in 2004, a job he held until he lost his seat in 2005.^[1] He returned to parliament in 2010, after he was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby when longtime MP Bob Wareing retired.

Following Ed Miliband's election to the Labour leadership, he made Twigg a Shadow Foreign Office Minister. In his October 2011 reshuffle, Miliband promoted Twigg to the post of Shadow Secretary of State for Education.^[2][3] However, on 7 October 2013 he was replaced in the reshuffle.^[4]