Michael John Foster (born March 14, 1963) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Worcester. He is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.
Michael Foster was born in Birmingham, West Midlands and was educated at the Great Wyrley High School in Great Wyrley near Cannock, and the Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics ...
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Michael John Foster (born March 14, 1963) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Worcester. He is currently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.
Michael Foster was born in Birmingham, West Midlands and was educated at the Great Wyrley High School in Great Wyrley near Cannock, and the Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1984. He later studied at the University of Wolverhampton where he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1995.
He followed in his father Brian's footsteps when he joined Jaguar Cars in 1984 as a financial analyst, becoming a senior analyst in 1985 and a management accountant in 1987. He left Jaguar in 1991 to become an accountancy and finance lecturer at the Worcester College of Technology, where he remained until his election to Westminster.
He joined the Labour Party in 1980, and was a shop steward for the Transport and...
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