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Matthew Raymond Western is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick & Leamington since the snap 2017 general election.
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Western was educated in St Albans and graduated with a BSc degree in Geography from the University of Bristol in 1984.
Prior to entering politics, Western worked in General Management; specialising in finance and marketing for Peugeot. He also works as a volunteer careers mentor at Campion School.
He was elected to Warwickshire County Council's Leamington Willes Division in 2013, and was re-elected for a second term in May 2017.
Western lives in Leamington with Rebecca Earle, a history professor at Warwick University. He supports Arsenal F.C..