Tom Watson
Politician and Blogger
Modern Warfare 2: 'no link between video games and adult violence'...sensibilities and will not usually start acting differently because of a video game. " Yesterday, Tom Watson, Labour's former digital minister, set up a Facebook group called Gamers' Voice as a pressure group for computer game fans after... In this article: Modern Warfare 2, Nottingham Trent University, Call of Duty, Tom Watson, Labour, and Keith Vaz |
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | November 09, 2009
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gets first ever video game West End premiere
...conflicting claims about whether its bloodthirsty scenes encourage real-life violence. Tom Watson, Labour's former digital minister, set up a Facebook club called Gamers' Voice as a pressure group for computer game fans after Keith Vaz, the...
In this article: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty, London, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Vue Cinema, Labour, Facebook, and Vernon Kay
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BBC News | November 01, 2009
Miliband in Russia to hold talks
...a group of MPs has urged Mr Miliband to raise human rights issues with Mr Lavrov. A letter signed by MPs including Labour's Tom Watson, Tory Julie Kirkbride and Liberal Democrat Julia Goldsworthy, highlights concerns over the fraud...
In this article: David Miliband, Russia, UK, Moscow, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Bridget Kendall, EU, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Lavrov, and Iran
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scotsman.com - Politics | October 29, 2009
MPs speak out on fireworks menace
...told the House of Commons yesterday. Labour's Tom Watson called for fireworks to be made "quieter", while fellow back-bencher David Drewsaid there should be restrictions on who can buy fireworks. Robert Flello said warnings should make...
In this article: Robert Flello, Labour, House of Commons, and Britain
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Labour MPs split over the level of violence in war game
Labour MP Keith Vaz called for action to ensure that children cannot buy the 18-certificate game, while fellow Labour former digital minister Tom Watson said it would be better to support the UK's video gaming industry. Mr Vaz,...
In this article: Modern Warfare 2, Labour, Infinity Ward, Activision, UK, and US
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Guardian | October 16, 2009
Tory civil service plan praised
...organiser and one of the more tribal members of the party. But that hasn't stopped him blogging today in praise of Francis Maude, the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office. He was inspired by reports that Maude wants to give outsiders,...
In this article: Francis Maude, Labour, and Financial Times
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
West Bromwich East (UK Parliament constituency)
...in 1974 and took its present boundaries in 1997. From 1974 it was the constituency of Peter Snape of the Labour Party , who stood down in 2001 and was succeeded by Tom Watson , also Labour. Since the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s...
In this article: Recession, Unemployment, Labour Party, House of Commons, Peter Snape, Parliament of the United Kingdom, and Birmingham
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Independent.co.uk - UK | August 08, 2009
Miliband's primaries idea 'idiotic'
...Totnes by selecting candidates in an open primary system. Tom Watson, the former Cabinet Office minister who remains close to the Prime Minister, used Twitter to condemn the idea. He told David Lammy, the education minister: "They're an...
In this article: David Miliband, Labour, Tories, Twitter, Gordon Brown, London, and UK
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Thomas Anthony Watson (born 8 January 1967) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East, and was principally known for being the first MP to start a blog. Watson is currently a Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office. Tom Watson was educated at King Charles I school, Kidderminster, and the University of Hull, where he was elected President of the Students Union in 1992. He was Chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students from 1992-1993. He then worked as a marketing officer and advertising account executive. In 1993, he began to work for the Labour Party as National Development Officer for Youth. He then worked on the party's 1997 general election campaign. He then went on to become National Political Officer of the AEEU trade union.
He was elected MP for West Bromwich East in 2001. In 2003, he included a weblog on his website. Attention was drawn to it by a page in which he parodied attempts by professional politicians to communicate with younger readers, entitled 'Teens!', which included such phrases as "We know that you're too busy fighting off your biological urges and being l33t hax0rs to Get Involved, but politics is cool, m'kay?". In 2004, he won the New Statesman New Media Award in the category of elected representative for using his weblog to further the democratic process.
Tom Watson was campaign organiser for the Labour Party in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election in July 2004, in which he succeeded in narrowly retaining the seat in difficult political times for the party.
On September 6, 2006, he resigned his ministerial position and released a further statement calling on Tony Blair to resign.
- Birth Date:
- January 08, 1967
- Nationality:
- British
- University Attended:
- University of Hull
- Political party:
- Labour
- Represents:
- West Bromwich East
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