Ronnie Campbell

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Ronnie Campbell
MP
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Member of Parliament
for Blyth Valley
Assumed office
11 June 1987
Preceded by John Ryman
Majority 9,229 (24%)
Personal details
Born (1943-08-14) 14 August 1943 (age 81)
Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Deirdre McHale
Children 6 (5 sons, 1 daughter)
Religion Roman Catholic[1]

Ronald Campbell (born 14 August 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blyth Valley since the 1987 general election.

Early life

He was born in Tynemouth, and grew up with seven siblings. He attended Blyth Ridley County High School, a secondary modern, and left school at 14 to become a coal miner. Before entering parliament he was a district councillor on Blyth Valley Borough Council from 1969 and a lay official of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He was a miner from 1958–86. Campbell led picket lines in the 1984–85 miners' strike and was arrested twice.[2]

Parliamentary career

He has been an MP since 1987 when he won his seat by 856 votes, and has often voted against the government on issues such as the Iraq War. He is an outspoken socialist. When the government nationalised Northern Rock in 2008, Campbell declared it "the People's Bank" and opened an account.[3]

In May 2009, during the high-profile MPs expenses scandal, Campbell agreed to give back over £6,000 he had claimed for furnishings in his London home.[4][5]

Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.[6]

He is one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support a British exit from the European Union.[7]

Personal life

He married Deirdre McHale in 1967, who serves on Northumberland County Council. They have five sons, including a set of twins, and one daughter. Whilst serving as an MP he had a reunion with a half-brother he had not known due to the latter's adoption.[8]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley
1987–present
Incumbent
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  6. 36 Labour MPs nominate Jeremy Corbyn, newstatesman.com, June 2015; accessed 8 September 2015.
  7. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eu-referendum-full-list-mps-backing-brexit-vote-historic-ballot-1544628
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