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词条 John Spellar
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  1. Early life

  2. Parliamentary career

  3. Outside interests

  4. References

  5. External links

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John Francis Spellar (born 5 August 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley. He served as a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office and returned to the backbenches in 2005. Spellar was Comptroller of the Household and the third most senior whip in the Whips' Office between October 2008 and May 2010.

Early life

Spellar was born in Bromley and educated at Dulwich College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford and worked as a trade union official. He was the Political Officer of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU) from 1969 to 1992.[1] As a young union officer he attended, along with John Golding and Roger Godsiff, the St Ermins group of senior trade union leaders who organised to prevent the Bennite left taking over the party in the years 1981-1987.[2]

He was a councillor in the London Borough of Bromley between 1970 and 1974.

Parliamentary career

Spellar stood for the constituency of Bromley at the 1970 general election and came second.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in the Birmingham Northfield by-election, 1982 but lost at the 1983 General Election. At the 1987 general election he stood again for the same seat but was again unsuccessful. Spellar returned to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election becoming the MP for Warley West and was appointed an opposition whip. Following a period as opposition spokesman for Northern Ireland in 1994, he was moved to shadow Defence ministers in 1995.

When Tony Blair formed his government in 1997, Spellar was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, being promoted to become Minister of State for the Armed Forces in 1999. He was appointed to the Privy Council, as Minister of State for Transport in the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions[1] with rights to attend Cabinet. After the 2002 reshuffle, he became Minister of State at the Department for Transport, and moved to the Northern Ireland Office in 2003. He was banned from the offices of both the Mayor of Derry and the Mayor of Belfast during that year, because he supported the reinstatement to the British Army of convicted murderers Mark Wright and James Fisher of the Scots Guards.[3] He left the front benches in 2005, but in 2008, he rejoined the government as a whip (Comptroller of the Household) and served until Labour entered opposition in May 2010.

In November 2015, he suggested on BBC Radio 5 Live that his party leader Jeremy Corbyn should resign over the question of whether to conduct air strikes on ISIL in Syria: 'What we’re seeing here is an attempted coup by Jeremy Corbyn and the people around him in the bunker trying to take over the party. It’s unacceptable. What we're seeing here is an attempted coup by a group to try and over-ride and over-run others. It is unacceptable. How does Jeremy Corbyn and his tiny band of Trots in the bunker think they've got the unique view on it all? If anyone should resign after this incident, it should be Jeremy Corbyn'.[4]

Speller is a member of the Labour Friends of Israel and has served as vice-chair.[5]

In June 2016 Spellar raised a formal objection to a parliamentary order creating the West Midlands Combined Authority, delaying its creation, because its size had been increased since its proposal and Spellar believed its funding was not clear.[6]

Spellar supported continued membership of the European Union in the 2016 referendum.[7]

In March 2019, Spellar was the only Labour Party MP to vote against improved LGBT education in schools, prompting criticism from LGBT Labour.[8]

Outside interests

Spellar is a member of the Henry Jackson Society Advisory Council.[9]

Spellar is a Director of Labour First[10]

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.building.co.uk/john-spellar/1010409.article |title=John Spellar |first=Phil |last=Clark |work=building.co.uk |year=2001 |accessdate=24 April 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/96690?backToResults=%2Fsearch%2Frefine%2F%3FdocStart=1%26themesTabShow=true |title=St Ermins group (act. 1981-1987) |first=Dianne |last=Hayter |publisher=Oxford University Press |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=26 April 2017}}
3. ^{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/10/northernireland.northernireland |title=Remember Peter McBride? |author= Greenslade, Roy |location= London |work=The Guardian|date=10 September 2003|accessdate=11 March 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/black-country-labour-mp-suggests-10512490 |title=Black Country Labour MP suggests Jeremy Corbyn should resign over Syria |author=Jonathan Walker |newspaper=Birmingham Mail |date=27 November 2015 |accessdate=30 June 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/mps-%EF%AC%82ock-to-support-labour-israel-group-1.53362|title=MPs flock to support Labour Israel group|publisher=The Jewish Chronicle|date=22 September 2016}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mp-spellar-throws-spanner-launch-11451354 |title=MP Spellar throws spanner into launch of West Midlands Combined Authority |first=Neil |last=Elkes |newspaper=Birmingham Mail |date=9 June 2016 |accessdate=24 April 2017}}
7. ^{{Cite web | title = Contacts | url = http://www.labouragainstbrexit.co.uk/contacts.html | website = labouragainstbrexit.co.uk | publisher = Labour Against Brexit | access-date = 1 September 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news |last=Parker |first=Connor |date=28 March 2019 |title=Disgraced Fiona Onasanya Among MPs Who Voted Against Improved LGBT Education In Schools |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/disgraced-fiona-onasanya-among-mps-who-voted-against-improved-lgbt-education-in-schools_uk_5c9cbb91e4b072a7f605daad? |work=Huffington Post |location= |access-date=28 March 2019}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://henryjacksonsociety.org/people/council-members/ |title=Advisory Council |publisher=Henry Jackson Society |accessdate=31 August 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923022301/http://henryjacksonsociety.org/people/council-members/ |archivedate=23 September 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
10. ^{{cite web |url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10694816/officers |title=Labour First Ltd Company Data |publisher=Companies House, UK |accessdate=27 January 2018 }}

External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050630000329/http://www.johnspellar.labour.co.uk/ John Spellar] official site
  • {{UK MP links | parliament = mr-john-spellar/318 | hansardcurr = 781 | hansard = mr-john-spellar | publicwhip = john_spellar | theywork = john_spellar}}
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