Hilary Benn Biography

Hilary James Wedgwood Benn MP (born 26 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central since the by-election in 1999. He served in the cabinet from 2003–10, under the premierships of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. From 2010–16, he served in various Labour Party shadow cabinets, most recently as Shadow Foreign Secretary from May 2015 until June 2016, when he was dismissed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. In October 2016, he was elected as the Chair of the new Exiting the European Union Select Committee.