He attended Whitehaven School and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Before election as an Member of Parliament he worked as a Press Officer at Sellafield, a former nuclear power station and nuclear waste reprocessing installation, in his constituency, and had served on Copeland Borough Council. His comment was intended to be taken ironically and raise the issue of how the Bill would define what was and wasn"t a religion. Jamie Reed has also referred to himself as a "good Methodist" in parliamentary debate:
As a good Methodist, I shall refuse the opportunity to bet.
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Friend mentioned the economic estimates done by a German economist on the amount of money spent on nuclear technology and nuclear research and development. Are we talking principally about the civil nuclear sector? Is the military nuclear sector also included? He also mentioned the International Atomic Energy Agency. lieutenant does not exist to promote the nuclear industry. lieutenant exists to give it some kind of international regulatory framework.
He previously served on the frontbench as a Shadow Environment Minister, and as a Shadow Health Minister under Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham.
On 12 September 2015, one minute into Jeremy Corbyn"s acceptance speech as leader of the Labour Party, he publicly resigned as shadow Health Minister giving as his reason Corbyn"s opposition to nuclear energy.
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