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Dan Carden
Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, Carden identifies as a socialist and as belonging to the party's conservative left. He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group caucus of left-wing Labour MPs until 2024, before founding the economically left-wing and socially conservative Blue Labour parliamentary caucus in 2025.
Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 2020, and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April to October 2020. He resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
Carden is a patron of LGBT+ Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election. An avowed socialist, he paid tribute to his predecessor Eric Heffer in a memorial lecture in January 2019.
Daniel Carden was born on 28 October 1986 in Liverpool. His mother worked in the NHS for over 40 years. His father, Mike Carden, was a shop steward during the Liverpool dockers' dispute during the 1990s, and was left unemployed for seven years after being sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. In his maiden speech, Carden recalled: "From the age of eight, I stood on picket lines, and I'm as proud to stand alongside workers in struggle today as an MP as I was then as a kid."
His secondary education was at St Edward's College in West Derby, Liverpool, where he was the Head Boy.[citation needed] He went on to study International Relations at the London School of Economics, graduating with a BSc, where he was also chair of the university Labour Club.
Prior to becoming an MP, Carden worked at Unite the Union in the office of its General Secretary, Len McCluskey.
In June 2017, Carden defeated Liverpool City Mayor Joe Anderson, Theresa Griffin MEP and others to be selected by the NEC to be selected as the Labour candidate for Liverpool Walton. At the snap 2017 general election, Carden was elected to Parliament as MP for Liverpool Walton with 85.7% of the vote and a majority of 32,551. In Parliament, he joined the Socialist Campaign Group of left-wing Labour MPs.
In October 2017, Carden campaigned for a ban on LGBT conversion therapy after a church in Anfield was exposed by a Liverpool Echo investigation for offering ritual starvation as a 'cure' for homosexuality. In July 2018, the UK Government pledged to bring forward proposals for a legislative ban.
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Dan Carden
Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, Carden identifies as a socialist and as belonging to the party's conservative left. He was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group caucus of left-wing Labour MPs until 2024, before founding the economically left-wing and socially conservative Blue Labour parliamentary caucus in 2025.
Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 2020, and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from April to October 2020. He resigned from the latter role due to the disagreements with the party leadership over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
Carden is a patron of LGBT+ Labour, one of eight LGBT MPs newly elected in the 2017 general election. An avowed socialist, he paid tribute to his predecessor Eric Heffer in a memorial lecture in January 2019.
Daniel Carden was born on 28 October 1986 in Liverpool. His mother worked in the NHS for over 40 years. His father, Mike Carden, was a shop steward during the Liverpool dockers' dispute during the 1990s, and was left unemployed for seven years after being sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. In his maiden speech, Carden recalled: "From the age of eight, I stood on picket lines, and I'm as proud to stand alongside workers in struggle today as an MP as I was then as a kid."
His secondary education was at St Edward's College in West Derby, Liverpool, where he was the Head Boy.[citation needed] He went on to study International Relations at the London School of Economics, graduating with a BSc, where he was also chair of the university Labour Club.
Prior to becoming an MP, Carden worked at Unite the Union in the office of its General Secretary, Len McCluskey.
In June 2017, Carden defeated Liverpool City Mayor Joe Anderson, Theresa Griffin MEP and others to be selected by the NEC to be selected as the Labour candidate for Liverpool Walton. At the snap 2017 general election, Carden was elected to Parliament as MP for Liverpool Walton with 85.7% of the vote and a majority of 32,551. In Parliament, he joined the Socialist Campaign Group of left-wing Labour MPs.
In October 2017, Carden campaigned for a ban on LGBT conversion therapy after a church in Anfield was exposed by a Liverpool Echo investigation for offering ritual starvation as a 'cure' for homosexuality. In July 2018, the UK Government pledged to bring forward proposals for a legislative ban.