Personal Life
Marsden is gay and lives with his partner.
Earlier this year Gordon was named as one of the Daily Telegraph's expenses "saints", due to the low levels of his expenses claims. When Parliament is sitting he commutes to London from his main home in Brighton, while his Blackpool constituency home which is a rented flat above his office in Highfield Road and is his designated second home.
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