Preceded by Robin Hodgson Political party Labour Majority 1,937 (5.2%) Name David Winnick | Preceded by Richard Thompson Role British Politician Nationality British Party Labour Party | |
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Full Name David Julian Winnick Born 26 June 1933 (age 90)
Brighton, Sussex, England ( 1933-06-26 ) Education London School of Economics and Political Science Succeeded by Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet Similar People Gary Streeter, Gerald Kaufman, George Howarth, Gisela Stuart | ||
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David Julian Winnick (born 26 June 1933) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North between 1979 and 2017. Previously he was the MP for Croydon South from 1966 to 1970.
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- Early life
- Parliamentary career
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David winnick mp it is shameful that people are ending up crying in front of their mp 31 10 16
Early life
Born into a British Jewish family, Winnick was an advertising manager and a branch chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. He was a councillor from 1959 on Willesden Borough Council, then on the London Borough of Brent.
Parliamentary career
After unsuccessfully fighting Harwich in 1964, Winnick was elected in 1966 as MP for Croydon South (now the area covered roughly by Croydon Central constituency), defeating incumbent Richard Thompson. He lost the seat to Thompson in 1970. After completing a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics, he stood again in Croydon Central in October 1974 and was returned for Walsall North in 1979.
Winnick is generally regarded as on the left of the Labour Party and has a strong commitment to human rights. That commitment made him a strong voice in the House of Commons against both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and he supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He was a member of the British-Irish Parliamentary body from its formation in 1990, and British co-chair, 1997–2005.
On 9 November 2005, Winnick's amendment to a government bill on detention of terrorist suspects without trial, proposing that the maximum period of detention should be 28 days rather than 90, passed in the House of Commons by 323 votes to 290, shortly after the government's 90-day proposal was defeated by 322 to 291. This was Tony Blair's first Commons defeat on a whipped vote, after nearly nine years as Prime Minister, and may come to be seen as a critical moment of his term in office.
In January 2009, he urged the communities minister to deplore the fact that Richard Williamson, a British-born bishop and Holocaust denier, had been brought back into the fold by the Vatican.
Winnick played a prominent role in the campaign to force the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin. This followed controversy from May 2009 concerning MPs' disclosure of expenses.
In the 2010 General Election, Walsall North was one of the most closely contested seats in the election, with Winnick defeating his Conservative opponent by 990 votes. In 2015, however, Winnick regained a comfortable majority of 1,937, despite the Labour Party suffering huge losses across the country. In his victory speech, he criticised the way in which his Conservative opponent had conducted their election campaign.
In 2017 (again against the national trend) he was defeated by Conservative candidate Eddie Hughes by 2,601 votes.