Graham Stringer | |
---|---|
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
In office 12 June 2001 –29 May 2002 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office | |
In office 9 November 1999 –7 June 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Chris Leslie |
Member of Parliament for Blackley and Broughton Manchester Blackley (1997–2010) | |
Assumed office 1 May 1997 | |
Preceded by | Kenneth Eastham |
Majority | 14,402 (37.3%) |
Leader of Manchester City Council | |
In office 1984–1996 | |
Preceded by | Bill Egerton |
Succeeded by | Richard Leese |
Member of Manchester City Council | |
In office 4 May 1979 –7 May 1998 | |
Ward | Harpurhey (1982–1998) Charlestown (1979–1982) |
Personal details | |
Born | Manchester,England | 17 February 1950
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Sheffield |
Graham Eric Stringer (born 17 February 1950) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for Blackley and Broughton,previously Manchester Blackley,since 1997. A member of the Labour Party,he was Leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996 and also served as chair of Manchester Airport from 1996-1997.
Stringer attended Christ Church Primary School in Beswick,Manchester,and Openshaw Technical High School for Boys in Openshaw,Manchester. After graduating in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1971,Stringer worked as an analytical chemist in the plastics industry. [1] [2] Stringer became a local councillor in Manchester in 1979,and was Manchester City Council leader from 1984 to 1996. He was also chair of Manchester Airport from 1996 to 1997. [2]
Stringer was first elected in 1997 taking over the Blackley seat of the retired Kenneth Eastham. He is only the third Member of Parliament (MP) in the constituency since 1964,which has been a Labour seat since Paul Rose defeated Eric Johnson that year.
Stringer was a member of the Environment,Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee until 1999. He then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office until 2001. After a spell on the back benches and as a government whip,he spent the last six years of the Labour Government as a member of the Transport Select Committee. He campaigned against a proposed Congestion Charge in Greater Manchester. [3] In 2008,Stringer became the first Labour MP to publicly call for Gordon Brown to resign as Prime Minister. [4]
In 2009,Stringer denied the existence of dyslexia,calling it "a cruel fiction" invented by "the education establishment" to divert blame for illiteracy from "their eclectic and incomplete methods for instruction". [5] The charities Dyslexia Action and the British Dyslexia Association criticised Stringer's claims. [6]
Following boundary changes which abolished the Manchester Blackley constituency,Stringer successfully contested the successor seat of Blackley and Broughton at the 2010 General Election.
In 2011,he called for Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson,a lifelong Labour voter and vocal supporter of the party at elections,to be given a seat in the House of Lords. [7] Two years later,Ed Miliband offered Ferguson a seat in the House of Lords but he turned it down.[ citation needed ] He also contributed to the book What Next for Labour? Ideas for a New Generation ;his piece was entitled "Transport Policy for the Twenty-First Century". [8]
He is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation,an organisation which promotes climate change denialism. [9] [10] As a member of the Science and Technology Committee,Stringer participated in the investigation into the Climatic Research Unit email controversy ("Climategate") in 2010,questioning Phil Jones closely on transparency [11] and other issues;in the five member group producing the report he voted against the other three voting members on every vote,representing a formulation more critical of the CRU and climate scientists. [12]
In an op-ed in 2011,Stringer criticised the British inquiries into the CRU email controversy,writing that the controversy "demanded independent and objective scrutiny of the science by independent panels. This did not happen." [13] Stringer was a member of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee from 2013 to 2015. [14] In 2014,Stringer was one of two MPs on the committee to vote against the acceptance of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of global warming. [15]
In 2014,he,along with 98 others,voted for the Dominic Raab amendment to the Immigration Bill,which aimed to prevent foreign criminals using European Human Rights Law in deportation cases. [16] [17]
He was a critic of former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband,who he accused of running an "unforgivably unprofessional" campaign, [18] and referred to as "not an asset on the doorsteps" when campaigning in 2014. [19]
Stringer has established a reputation as a prominent Eurosceptic in the Labour Party who favoured a referendum on the EU. [18] He called for Britain to leave the EU in the 2016 Referendum,describing the EU as a barrier to a progressive government. [20] On 17 July 2018,a vote was held on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the customs union in the event of a no deal Brexit. Frank Field,Kate Hoey,John Mann and Stringer were the only Labour MPs to oppose the amendment,which was voted down by 307 votes to 301. [21]
He is a member of Labour Friends of Israel. [22]
On 21 October 2020,during the COVID-19 pandemic,Stringer was the only Labour MP to vote against implementing stricter lockdown in the North West of England,an area which includes his own constituency in Greater Manchester. [23]
In 1999,he married Kathryn Carr;they have three children. [2] [1] In the 2021 BBC One drama The Trick ,a dramatisation of the Climategate scandal,Stringer was portrayed by Andrew Dunn. [24]
Nicholas Hugh Brown is a British Independent politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983,making him the fifth longest serving MP in the House of Commons. He is the longest serving Chief Whip of the Labour Party,holding the position in three separate periods under six Labour leaders –Tony Blair,Gordon Brown,Harriet Harman,Ed Miliband,Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer. He also held several ministerial positions whilst his party was in government from 1997 until 2010. On 26 May 2021,Brown was elected as chair of the Finance Committee. Brown sits in the House of Commons as an independent,having had the whip removed in September 2022,triggered by an investigation affecting his Labour membership.
Barry Strachan Gardiner is a British politician who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2016 to 2020. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent North since 1997.
Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham is a British politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for Workington from 2001 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1994 to 1999.
Caroline Louise Flint is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley from 1997 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party,she attended the Cabinet of the United Kingdom as Minister for Housing and Planning in 2008 and Minister for Europe from 2008 to 2009.
Michael John Gapes is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ilford South from 1992 to 2019.
Ivan Lewis is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South from 1997 to 2019,initially as a member of the Labour Party then as an independent from 2017.
John Mann,Baron Mann is a British independent politician who serves as an advisor to the Government on Antisemitism,sitting as a Member of the House of Lords. Prior to being granted a peerage,he was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bassetlaw from the 2001 general election until 28 October 2019.
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. Alongside his brother,Foreign Secretary David Miliband,he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Blackley and Broughton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Graham Stringer. He was first elected in 1997 for the former Manchester Blackley and prior to this was Leader of Manchester City Council. The constituency covers north Manchester and east Salford.
Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party,he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019,when he resigned to form The Independent Group,later Change UK,along with six other MPs. Later in 2019,he left Change UK and,after a short time as an independent MP,joined the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election,he was unsuccessful in being re-elected as an MP and did not return to the House of Commons.
David Wright Miliband is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee and a former British Labour Party politician. He was the Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields in North East England from 2001 to 2013. He and his brother,Ed Miliband,were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Lord Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. He was a candidate for Labour Party leadership in 2010,following the departure of Gordon Brown,but was defeated by his brother and subsequently left politics.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom whose aims are to challenge what it calls "extremely damaging and harmful policies" envisaged by governments to mitigate anthropogenic global warming. The GWPF,and some of its prominent members individually,have been characterized as practising and promoting climate change denial.
The 2010 Labour Party leadership election was triggered on 10 May 2010 by incumbent leader Gordon Brown's resignation following the 2010 general election which resulted in a hung parliament;the first since 1974. Brown resigned as Leader of the Labour Party on 10 May and as Prime Minister on 11 May,following the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats forming a coalition government. The National Executive Committee decided the timetable for the election the result of which would be announced at the annual party conference. On 25 September 2010,Ed Miliband became the new Leader of the Labour Party,narrowly defeating his older brother,David.
Alexander Cunningham is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Shadow Minister for Courts and Sentencing since 2020.
Jonathan Neil Reynolds is a British politician. He has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy since 2021. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde since 2010.
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2021. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester South since 2011.
Lucy Maria Powell is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport since 2021. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 2012.
Emma Louise Lewell-Buck is a Labour Party politician,who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since winning a by-election in 2013. She is South Shields’s first female MP.
Michael Joseph Patrick Kane is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wythenshawe and Sale East since February 2014. He won the seat in the 2014 by-election,which was held following the death of Paul Goggins.
Peter Kyle is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2021. A member of the Labour Party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove since 2015.
{{cite book}}
: |author2=
has generic name (help)