Brian Ashworthy
The Honourable Brian Ashworthy | |
|---|---|
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| Leader of the Opposition | |
| Assumed office 2023 | |
| Monarch | William V |
| Prime Minister | Philip Campbell Henry Nugent |
| Leader of the Social Labour Party | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Brian Gordon Ashworthy November 9, 1967 Pewtree, Pawnee |
| Political party | Social Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Gwen Tambert (m.1999, div. 2007) Angela Iwener (m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
Brian Ashworthy is a Delamarian politician, currently serving as Leader of the Opposition, and leader of the Social Labour Party. Ashworthy was elected MP for Barksted since 1998, and soon became a rising star in the left of the party, angered at Stephen Milbank's betrayal of the Liberal-Social pact, he became an outspoken critic of the government. In 2017 Ashworthy became leader of the Social Labour Party in a suprise result, with the more moderate Sacco Riazzo expected to win.
Ashworthy was born in Pewtree, Pawnee in 1967, to trade unionist parents, academic Dr. James Ashworthy and union organiser Willa Shant. Ashworthy attended St. Christopher's College, Karroway, a prestigious boys school, before studying at Pawnee Industrial and Technical College, earning a degree in Trade Union Studies. Ashworthy became heavily involved with the campus Social Labour movement, and briefly joined the Delamarian Fraternal Communist Society. In 1992, at the age of 25, Ashworthy unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the seat of St. Louis-Nord in Briselle, coming third. Ashworthy would go on to unsuccessfully stand in three more seats, Chalnor Plain and Lidsden concurrently in 1994, and Hamden Park in a by-election, before winning the seat of Barksted in 1998.