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Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960 in London) is a British politician and the Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter.

Currently Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for the South West, he was one of the first openly gay MPs.

The son of a Church of England vicar at Norwich Cathedral, Bradshaw was educated at the Thorpe St Andrew High School (Norwich) and the University of Sussex where he was awarded a degree in German. He also attended the University of Freiburg (Germany). In 1982/83 he taught English at the Technikum, a school of technology in Winterthur (Switzerland). He became a reporter with the Exeter Express and Echo in 1984 and was appointed as a reporter with the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich in 1985. In 1986 he joined the BBC as reporter with BBC Radio Devon. In 1989 he became the award winning Berlin correspondent with BBC Radio and was serving in the city at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He became a reporter in 1991 with BBC Radio's The World At One programme, where he stayed until his election to Westminster. He won the Sony News Reporter Award in 1993.

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