Dan Carden is the Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, having first been elected to Parliament in 2017.
The Liverpool, Walton seat is the safest Labour seat in the entire country, with Labour gaining 84% of the vote in the 2019 general election and a majority of 30,520 over the Conservative Party. Considered to be the poorest of Liverpool’s Parliamentary constituencies, it also includes both Liverpool and Everton football clubs. It was previously represented at Westminster by the Liverpool region mayor, Steve Rotherham.
Dan Carden served as shadow financial secretary to the Treasury from April 2020 to October 2020. He previously served as Shadow International Development Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn.
Born in 1986 in Liverpool, Carden’s father Mike, was a TGWU union official who was sacked during the 1995 to 1998 Mersey Dock’s strike. Dan Carden’s website shows a picture of him on the picket line as a boy in the dispute.
Dan Carden studied at the London School of Economics. He then worked for the Unite trade union in the office of its General Secretary Len McCluskey, before being elected to Parliament.
Carden is considered to be on the left of the Labour Party. He nominated Rebecca Long Bailey in her 2020 bid for the Labour Party leadership.
Carden is a Patron of LGBT+ Labour. In July 2021, he gave an emotional speech in the Commons where he detailed the serious battles he had endured in his twenties with alcohol addiction in the context of the pressure of trying to hide his sexuality.
He is Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Racing and Bloodstock, Cuba, Alcohol Harm, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mexico.
Email – dan.carden.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.66prioryroad.co.uk/about/
Twitter – @DanCardenMP
