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Ben Bradshaw
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Born in Westminster, London
Born on 30th of August 1960
Died in 000

Ben Bradshaw worked as a journalist for regional newspapers, then in local radio, as the BBC’s Berlin correspondent, and for several years as a reporter for The World at One on Radio 4. He was elected as MP for Exeter in 1997, and held ministerial office under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. As Minister of State for Health his attempted defence of NHS IT fiascos, hospitals charging excessively for parking, and a period when trying to find an NHS dentist was like having teeth pulled, as it were, aroused some understandable criticism.

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