Jim Knight

The Right Honourable The Lord Knight of Weymouth PC FRSA
Official portrait, 2018
Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Tony McNulty
Succeeded by	Chris Grayling (Employment) The Lord Freud (Welfare Reform)
Minister for the South West
In office 5 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Ben Bradshaw
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister of State for Schools and Learning
In office 5 May 2006 – 5 June 2009
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Jacqui Smith
Succeeded by	Vernon Coaker
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs
In office 6 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Alun Michael
Succeeded by	Barry Gardiner
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Life peerage 23 June 2010 Member of Parliament for South Dorset In office 7 June 2001 – 12 April 2010 Preceded by Ian Bruce Succeeded by Richard Drax
Personal details
Born	(1965-03-06) 6 March 1965 (age 59) Bexley, England
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Alma mater	Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Knight's voice recorded in July 2013

James Philip Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouth, PC, FRSA^[1] (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who served as Minister for the South West and Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset from 2001 to 2010.

After losing his seat to Richard Drax of the Conservative Party, it was announced Knight would be made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours. He is now chief education and external officer at TES Global Ltd, and a visiting professor at the London Knowledge Lab of the Institute of Education in London.