Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham DL (born 16 September 1952) is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015.
Cunningham served in junior posts in the Blair and Brown governments from 2004 to 2010, and on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench from 2011 to 2013.
[citation needed] On leaving Strasbourg and Brussels in 1999 he became the Chief Executive of Human Rights NGO INDICT where he remained until his election to the House of Commons.
[1] Cunningham was a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee from 2001 until 2004, when he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to DEFRA Minister Elliot Morley.
[3][4] In 2012, opposition leader Ed Miliband appointed him to the front bench as a Shadow International Development Minister.