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British politician

Torsten Henricson-BellFAcSS (born September 1982) is a Labour politician, economist, author, and newspaper columnist, serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West since 2024.^[3] He was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions in January 2025.

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Previously he was the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, an economic thinktank, from 2015 to 2024.

He was appointed to the Resolution Foundation in 2015 after having served as Ed Miliband's Director of policy, and as a Treasury civil servant who became special adviser to Alistair Darling during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.^[4]

Early life and education

Bell's Swedish mother, Clem Henricson, is a policy analyst and activist, and his English father, Bill Bell, is an academic and children's rights advocate.

His twin brother, Olaf, is a Cambridge-educated civil servant.^[5]

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