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Colin Challen represents Morley and Rothwell - one of eight parliamentary
constituencies in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He was elected on June 7th,
2001 and had previously stood as a Parliamentary Candidate in 1992,
in Beverley, East Yorkshire. Colin Challen is a founding chairman
of the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group. Prior to his
work for the Labour Party he was for 12 years a self-employed printer
and publisher, having started a small business after leaving university
in 1982. Colin Challen holds a philosophy degree from the University
of Hull. His chief concerns focus on the environment, trade policy,
the economy, pensions/senior citizens' interests and animal welfare.
He is a member of the Environmental Audit Select Committee, and in
2003 he launched and became a founder member of the All-Party Parliamentary
Group on Free Trade. On 29 January 2007 Colin Challen announced that
he would not contest the next general election, in order to devote
his time to campaigning on climate change.
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