Martin Linton is the Labour Party MP for the constituency of Battersea in London. He won the seat in the 1997 General Election, beating the Conservative MP John Bowis. He retained the seat in 2001 and 2005. He is currently a Private Parliamentary Secretary (PPS) in the Department for Constitutional Affairs
He was born in 1944 in Sweden and educated at Limpsfield Primary School, Christ's Hospital, the Université de Lyon and Pembroke College, Oxford (where he read PPE). Before becoming an MP he was a journalist, most recently writing for The Guardian.
Contact details for Martin Linton and his team can be found on his official web site.
