Michael John Foster (born 14 March 1963) is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Worcester from 1997 until 2010, and was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.
He left Jaguar in 1991 to become a lecturer in accountancy and finance at Worcester College of Technology, where he remained until he became an MP.
[citation needed] He joined the Labour Party in 1980, and was a shop steward for the Transport and General Workers' Union for two years from 1986.
He made his maiden speech on 2 June 1997, where he spoke of the constituency and the Royal Worcester porcelain.
In another reshuffle in October 2008, he was promoted to be a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development.