Ronnie Campbell
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Ronnie Campbell MP |
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Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley |
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Assumed office 11 June 1987 |
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Preceded by | John Ryman |
Majority | 9,229 (24%) |
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Born | Tynemouth, Northumberland, England |
14 August 1943
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.
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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]
References
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External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Ronnie Campbell MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com – Ronnie Campbell MP
- The Public Whip – Ronnie Campbell MP voting record
- Meeting his unknown brother in 2006
- BBC Politics
News items
- Northumberland County Council with £11m in Lehman Brothers in October 2008
- Hairdresser in Cumbria with the same name gets his emails in November 2003
- His son in the Royal Marines in March 2003
- Cleared of assault in May 2002
- Shoplifter given £10,000 trial over 92p tin of spaghetti bolognese in May 2002
- Suspended from the Commons in March 1998
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley 1987–present |
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- ↑ 36 Labour MPs nominate Jeremy Corbyn, newstatesman.com, June 2015; accessed 8 September 2015.
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