Colin Burgon

Colin Burgon (born 22 April 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Elmet from 1997 to 2010.

Junior School and passed the eleven-plus exam, enabling him to attend St Michael's Catholic College in Woodhouse.

On leaving school, Burgon trained as a teacher at Carnegie College, Leeds, then studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic.

Burgon worked as a history teacher at Foxwood High School (which later became East Leeds Family Learning Centre and was demolished in 2009), a deprived secondary school in the Seacroft area of East Leeds, where he was an active member of the NUT union.

Burgon left teaching and the NUT in 1987 to work for Wakefield District Council as a local government policy and research officer.