Tom Harris: podcast appearances and interviews

Thomas Harris is the Director of Data and Impact at the Free Speech Union. He is a Scottish journalist and former politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Glasgow South, previously Glasgow Cathcart, from 2001 to 2015. Harris’s political career included a role as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, beginning in September 2006 under Prime Minister Tony Blair. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, Harris maintained his junior ministerial role until October 2008, when he was removed from the position and returned to the backbenches. He was notably the first Scottish Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown to step down as prime minister in June 2009. Harris also ran as a candidate in the 2011 Scottish Labour leadership election but effectively conceded defeat before the results were announced. In 2012, he rejoined Ed Miliband’s frontbench team as shadow environment minister, a role he held until June 2013 when he left to focus on his family commitments. Harris’s political and journalistic background informs his current work in data and impact at the Free Speech Union, where he contributes to issues related to free speech and public debates.