Pat McFadden

Patrick Bosco McFadden (born 26 March 1965) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2025, having previously served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South East since 2005. Born in Paisley, McFadden was educated at Holyrood Secondary School. He studied politics at the University of Edinburgh and was chair of Scottish Labour Students from 1986 to 1987. After leaving university, he worked for Labour Scottish affairs spokesman Donald Dewar and Labour leader John Smith. He then worked for Tony Blair, serving as Political Secretary to the Prime Minister from 2002 to 2005. McFadden was elected to Parliament as MP for Wolverhampton South East at the 2005 general election. He joined the government frontbench as Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office in 2006 before being promoted to Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs under Gordon Brown. In 2009, he was promoted to a cabinet-attending role as Minister of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, deputy to Business Secretary Peter Mandelson. After Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election, McFadden was shadow business secretary in the interm shadow cabinet of Harriet Harman from May to October 2010. He unsuccessfully sought election to the shadow cabinet and then subsequently returned to the backbenches. McFadden rejoined the frontbench as shadow europe minister under Ed Miliband in 2014 and was reappointed by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. McFadden was dismissed by Corbyn in 2016, and remained on the backbenches until he was appointed Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 2020 by Keir Starmer. He was promoted to the shadow cabinet in 2021 as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and became Shadow...