Mark Fisher (born 29 October 1944) is a British politician. He has served as the Labour Member of parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central for the last 25 years and has also spent a short time as Minister for the Arts.
Since the retirement of Tam Dalyell in 2005, Fisher remains the only Labour MP to have been educated at Eton College. He continued his education with a master's degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. On completi...
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Mark Fisher (born 29 October 1944) is a British politician. He has served as the Labour Member of parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central for the last 25 years and has also spent a short time as Minister for the Arts.
Since the retirement of Tam Dalyell in 2005, Fisher remains the only Labour MP to have been educated at Eton College. He continued his education with a master's degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. On completing his education in 1966 he became a film producer and screenwriter, until 1975 when he became the principal of the Tattenhall Centre of Education in Cheshire, where he remained until his election to Westminster.
Before leaving University, Fisher had numerous low-paying jobs, including: working in a Cyril Lord carpet factory in Northern Ireland, as a waiter, as a kitchen porter, as a caddy on a golf course, insulating roofs, on a travelling fairground and as a folk singer and guitarist.
His film work consisted of writing screenplays for Harry...
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