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Jon Cruddas is the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham. He joined the party as a teenager and was active in the Australian Builders Labourers Federation. He studied for an MA and PhD within the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University.

In 1989 he joined the Labour Party Research Department with responsibility for labour market policy. In 1994 he was transferred into the office of the General Secretary. In 1997 he was appointed the Deputy Political Secretary to Prime Minister Tony Blair working on labour market policy and relations with the unions and TUC. In that period, Labour introduced the National Minimum Wage and a series of initiatives to support union recognition and fairness at work.

In 2001 he was elected as the Labour MP for Dagenham in East London, redesignated Dagenham and Rainham following boundary changes in 2010.

In 2007 he was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Between 2012 and 2015 he was Policy Coordinator within the Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband. He is a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures at the University of Leicester.