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After graduating with a law degree he became a lawyer with the Engineers’ Union before his appointment as EPMU national secretary in 2000. Mr Little entered Parliament in 2011 as a Labour list MP. He was Opposition justice spokesperson from February 2013 to November 2014 and from August to October 2017.