 Member for Blackpool South since 1997. Committees: Vice- Chair, Parliamentary Labour Party; Education and Employment Committee, June 97; Treasurer, All-Party Arts and Heritage Group June 97; Chair, Future of Europe Trust 1999; Member, Education Select Committee. Political career: Chair, Programme Committee Fabian Society 1996; National Executive, Fabian Society 1995; Contested Blackpool South, April 1992. Special political interests: Arts and heritage, education, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, disabilities. Profession/Trade: Magazine editor; Open University Lecturer. Education: Stockport Grammar School; New College, Oxford; The Warburg Institute; University of London; Harvard University, Kennedy Scholarship. Author of: Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspective in 19th Century Society (2nd edition) (1998); and numerous articles in History Today, Political Quarters, Tribune, The Guardian, New Statesman. Affiliations: Association of British Editors; Member, GMB; Board Member, Institute of Historical Research, London; President, British Resorts Association. Hobbies: World music, travel, early music, swimming, medieval culture. b. 28 November 1953. Single.
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2005 |
|
|
2001 |
|
| LAB HOLD |
Votes |
% |
+/- % |
Votes |
% |
| Labour |
19,375 |
50.5 |
-3.8 |
21,060 |
54.3 |
| Communist Brit |
11,453 |
29.9 |
-3.1 |
12,798 |
33 |
| Lib Dem |
5,552 |
14.5 |
3.9 |
4,115 |
10.6 |
| BNP |
1,113 |
2.9 |
2.9 |
|
|
| UKIP |
849 |
2.2 |
0.1 |
819 |
2.1 |
| Majority |
7,922 |
20.7 |
|
8,262 |
21.3 |
| Turnout |
38,342 |
52.1 |
-0.1 |
38,792 |
52.2 |
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