Preceded by Peter Lilley Party Labour Party Role Politician | Name Kerry Pollard Political party Labour Succeeded by Anne Main | |
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Born 27 April 1944 (age 79) ( 1944-04-27 ) Spouse Marillyn Pollard (m. 1966) | ||
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Kerry Patrick Pollard (born 27 April 1944) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected at the 1997 General Election as Member of Parliament (MP) for St Albans, and held the seat until his defeat at the 2005 General Election.
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- Early life
- Before Parliament
- Non political career
- Political career
- Parliamentary career
- After Parliament
- 2015
- 2017
- Personal life
- References
Early life
Pollard was brought up in Rochdale. He attended the Catholic Thornleigh Salesian College in Astley Bridge, Bolton. He has an Open University Bachelor of Arts degree in industrial relations and urban regeneration.
Before Parliament
Pollard was a Housing Association director, interested in social justice and social inclusion. He came in third place at his first attempt to be elected as MP for the St Albans constituency in the 1992 General Election.
Non-political career
Political career
Parliamentary career
Kerry Pollard raised an early day motion in the House of Commons on Monday 19 April 1999, in support of Bradford & Bingley Building Society's fight to stay mutual. He urged Bradford & Bingley members to vote against moves to force Britain's second largest building society to convert to a bank, saying "the early day motion will express the fear that were Bradford & Bingley Building Society to become a bank, the entire building society movement will be damaged directly."
In the United Kingdom Parliament, Pollard opposed the US-led wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, but his most consistent aberrations from the party instructions were over benefits – he voted on several occasions against cuts in state benefits. Pollard chaired the all party small business group.
A Christian socialist, Pollard took a conservative line on questions of personal morality, he was a member of the all party pro-life group, and was one of a handful of Labour MPs to oppose the equalisation of the age of consent. As an MP, he appeared on former BBC day time chat show Kilroy, contributing to topics such as the problem of personal debt, with comments including "Surely the banks have some sort of responsibility?"
After Parliament
Kerry Pollard joined the management board of Ridgehill Housing Association in 2005, rising to become, upon merging with William Sutton Housing Association, the chair of William Sutton Homes. Following the merger of the William Sutton Group and Affinity Homes Group on 1 October 2006, Pollard was removed as chair of William Sutton Homes on 25 April 2007, after he had complained to the Housing Association about the behaviour of the new parent company.
Pollard is chair of the Labour Housing Group.
2015
Kerry Pollard stood as the Labour candidate for the seat he lost in 2005 to Anne Main. He faced Main again. In May 2015, Main got 47% of the votes, Pollard got 23%, Sandy Walkington (Liberal Democrat) got 19% and Chris Wright (UKIP) got 8%.
2017
Kerry Pollard again stood as the Labour candidate for Parliament and again he faced Anne Main. In this election, in June 2017, Main got 43% of the votes, Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat) got 32%, Pollard got 23% and Jack Easton (Green Party) got 2%.
Personal life
He married Maralyn Murphy in 1966, and they have five sons and two daughters. They have lived in St Albans since 1969.