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Leslie John Huckfield (born 7 April 1999) is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton from 1967 to 1983 and as a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1989. Early lifeFrom 1960 to 1963, Huckfield studied at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, subsequently promoted to MA. From 1963 to 1966, he worked as a lecturer in economics at Birmingham City University (then the City of Birmingham College of Commerce) whilst studying for a Master of Commerce degree, specialising in Econometrics and Statistics.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Parliamentary careerHuckfield first stood for Parliament at Warwick and Leamington in 1966, but he was defeated by the Conservative incumbent John Hobson. In 1967, at the age of 24, Huckfield was elected to parliament for the constituency of Nuneaton in a by-election following the resignation of Frank Cousins, becoming the youngest MP (the "Baby of the House"). He was Under-Secretary of State for Industry from 1976 to 1979, serving under Industry Secretary Eric Varley in the government of James Callaghan. For a time he was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, holding the Socialist Societies seat. When Labour returned to opposition in 1979, he was opposition spokesperson on industry from 1979 to 1981. He was a founding member of the Socialist Campaign Group in 1982. After being re-elected in four general elections, Huckfield did not stand when the constituency boundaries were changed for the 1983 general election. The Nuneaton seat was gained by the Conservative Lewis Stevens, who held it until 1992. Huckfield had been expected to contest the recreated Sedgefield seat for the 1983 general election, but instead Labour selected Tony Blair as their candidate, who was elected.[1] After Parliament{{BLP unsourced section|date=January 2016}}Huckfield was then appointed as Director of the Capital Transport Campaign for the Greater London Council. In the 1984 elections for the European Parliament, he was returned as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Merseyside East constituency. He was Vice Chair of Parliament's Transport Committee, and stood down in 1989. He is now based in Auchterarder, Scotland, where he runs a funding consultancy called Leslie Huckfield Research International. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6294896.stm|title=Jeers and smears in Blair's backyard|publisher=BBC News Online|date=13 July 2007}} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Nuneaton | years = 1967–1983 | before = Frank Cousins | after = Lewis Stevens }}{{Succession box | title = Baby of the House | years = 1967–1969 | before = John Ryan | after = Bernadette Devlin }}{{s-ppo}}{{succession box|title=Socialist societies representative on the Labour Party National Executive Committee|years=1978–1982|before=John Cartwright|after=John Evans}}{{S-end}}{{Babies of the House}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Huckfield, Leslie}} 13 : 1942 births|Living people|Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen-sponsored MPs|Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1966–70|UK MPs 1970–74|UK MPs 1974|UK MPs 1974–79|UK MPs 1979–83|Members of the European Parliament for English constituencies|Labour Party (UK) MEPs|MEPs for the United Kingdom 1984–89|Academics of the University of Birmingham |
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