Dan Carden

Dan Carden, a self-proclaimed “proud Scouser”, a picket line protester as a child in the Liverpool Dockers strike. He joined Unite after graduating, working for Len McClusky for five years. Since arriving in Westminster, Carden has become a patron of LGBT Labour. He was the subject of some controversy in late 2019 after it was alleged that the previous year, he had sung “Hey Jews” to the tune of The Beatles’s Hey Jude, appearing to mock the anti-Semitism allegations within the Labour Party – allegations Carden has denied, claiming they were only made in an attempt to influence the general election result. In line with his left-wing credentials, he nominated Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 2020 Labour leadership election. From 2018 to 2020, he was shadow international development secretary and shadow financial secretary from April to October 2020. He has called for the UK to influence a democratisation of organisations such as the IMF and World Bank to allow poorer countries to “decide their own destiny”. During the pandemic of 2020, Carden called for the eradication of debt in countries in the Global South.