Dennis Skinner

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Dennis Skinner
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Skinner in 2011
Honorary President of the Socialist Campaign Group
Assumed office
6 May 2020
Domestic partnerLois Blasenheim
Children3
Alma mater Ruskin College
Profession Miner, politician
Signature Dennis Skinner signature.svg
NicknameBeast of Bolsover
Dennis Skinner's voice
Skinner speaks to cabin crew strikers outside Parliament
Recorded 12 July 2017

Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover for 49 years, from 1970 to 2019. [1] A member of the Labour Party, he is known for his left-wing views and republican sentiments. [2] Before entering Parliament, he worked for more than 20 years as a miner.

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Nicknamed the "Beast of Bolsover", Skinner belonged to the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. [3] [4] [5] He was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, with brief breaks, for 30 years, and was the committee's chairman from 1988 to 1989. [6] He was one of the longest serving members of the House of Commons and the longest continuously serving Labour MP. [7] He is a lifelong Eurosceptic. [8]

During his parliamentary career, Skinner was suspended from Parliament on at least ten occasions, usually for unparliamentary language when attacking opponents. Perhaps the most notable example of this occurred in 2016, when he referred to David Cameron as 'Dodgy Dave' during a parliamentary debate about the Panama Papers. He was also known for regularly heckling upon the arrival of Black Rod in the House of Commons chamber during the State Opening of Parliament.

Early life and career

Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner is the third of nine children. His father Edward Skinner was a coal miner who was sacked after the 1926 general strike, [9] and his mother Lucy was a cleaner. [10] In June 1942, at the age of 10, Skinner won a scholarship to attend Tupton Hall Grammar School after passing the eleven-plus a year early. [11] In 1949, he went on to work as a coal miner at Parkhouse colliery, working there until its closure in 1962. [12] [13] He then worked at Glapwell colliery near Bolsover. [10] In 1956 Skinner entered the Sheffield Star Walk, an amateur walking race, and finished second. [14] [15]

In 1966, Skinner became the youngest-ever president of the Derbyshire region of the National Union of Mineworkers. [16] [17] After working for 20 years as a miner, [18] he became a member of Derbyshire County Council [18] and a Clay Cross councillor in the 1960s. [13] [19] As chairman of the Clay Cross Council, Skinner was noted for his decision not to wear the traditional council dress and gold chain, stating, 'My conscience would not permit me to wear it, because I believe... all the pomp and ceremony attached to local government [and] Parliament is outdated and a waste of time'. [20] In 1967, he attended Ruskin College, after completing a course run by the National Union of Mineworkers at the University of Sheffield. [10] [21] Skinner resigned from the colliery and the Derbyshire Miners' Union shortly after his election to parliament in June 1970. [22]

Parliamentary career (1970–2019)

Skinner in 1992 Dennis Skinner 1992.jpg
Skinner in 1992

In 1956, Skinner joined the Labour Party. [10] He was chosen as Parliamentary Prospective candidate for Bolsover on 5 June 1969. [23] Skinner was elected as MP for the then safe Labour seat of Bolsover at the 1970 general election, succeeding Harold Neal. He retained the seat for 49 years (receiving his highest vote share in 1970, whilst achieving his highest majority at the 1997 general election), until he lost it at the 2019 general election to Mark Fletcher of the Conservative Party,

Due to his aggressive rhetoric, Skinner became known as the "Beast of Bolsover". [18] Skinner recalls that he earned the nickname for his behaviour in a tribute debate in the Commons following the death of former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in 1977: [24] "They were making speeches about the wonder of Anthony Eden, so I got up and talked about miners and people seriously injured and dead in the pits and the £200 given to the widow. There was booing and then all the Tories left and the papers had a go, some serious ones". [25]

During most of his tenure in the Commons (in the years where the Labour Party were in opposition), Skinner would usually sit on the first seat of the front bench below the gangway in the Commons (known as the 'Awkward Squad Bench' because it is where rebel Labour Party MPs have traditionally sat) in a tweed jacket (whilst most other MPs wear suits) and signature red tie. During the New Labour government from 1997 to 2010, Skinner sat in the adjacent spot on the government benches.

In 1979, Skinner played a role in publicly exposing Anthony Blunt as a spy for the Soviet Union. On 15 November 1979, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed Blunt's wartime role in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in reply to questions put to her by Ted Leadbitter, the MP for Hartlepool, and Skinner. Thatcher made a full statement to the Commons on the matter the following week:

Mr. Leadbitter and Mr. Skinner: asked the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on recent evidence concerning the actions of an individual, whose name has been supplied to her, in relation to the security of the United Kingdom.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: The name which the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter) has given me is that of Sir Anthony Blunt. [26]

On 7 June 1985, Skinner talked out a bill by Enoch Powell which would have banned stem cell research by moving the writ for the by-election in Brecon and Radnor; [27] [28] [29] Skinner later described this as his proudest political moment. [25] On 20 January 1989, he talked out a move to reduce the number of weeks at which an abortion can be legally performed in Britain by moving the writ for the Richmond by-election. [30]

In 2003, Skinner was among the quarter of Labour MPs who voted against the Iraq War; he later rebelled against the party line when he voted against government policy to allow terror suspects to be detained without trial for up to 90 days. In 2007, Skinner and 88 other Labour MPs voted against the Labour Government's policy of renewing the Trident Nuclear Missile System. [31]

In January 2012, Skinner was referred to as "a dinosaur" in a controversial jibe by David Cameron, who said "I often say to my children 'No need to go to the Natural History Museum to see a dinosaur, come to the House of Commons at about half past twelve'". Cameron received criticism for the remark, and was accused of ageism. Labour MPs complained at the time that Cameron's words amounted to "a gratuitous and entirely offensive insult to a greatly respected honourable Member, made entirely because of his age." House Speaker John Bercow replied at the time: "I'm always in favour of humour but just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, humour is a matter of subjective judgment. Sometimes people are funny. Sometimes they think they are funny. Sometimes they think they are funny deliberately when they are not. Sometimes they don't realise they are funny when they are." [32] In July 2015, Cameron referenced the dinosaur remark in another jibe in which he said "It's always very good to see the Labour Party in full voice, cheering on 'Jurassic Park'. I would stick to the movie". [33]

In May 2014, Skinner was the principal guest speaker at the Kent Miners Rally at the Aylesham & District Social Club to commemorate 30 years since the Miners Strike 1984/1985.

Following the retirement of Peter Tapsell in 2015, Skinner was one of the four longest-serving MPs, but did not become Father of the House, as two other MPs, who were also first elected in 1970, had been sworn in earlier on the same day and consecutively both held that position: Gerald Kaufman (2015–2017) and Kenneth Clarke (2017–2019). Skinner, the oldest sitting MP since 2017, stated that in any case he would not accept the honorific title. [34] In 2019, with Clarke's impending retirement, the issue of Skinner becoming Father of the House resurfaced but was rendered moot, when Skinner lost his seat at the 2019 general election to Mark Fletcher of the Conservative Party. [35]

In 2017, upon Kaufman's death, 85-year old Skinner became the oldest member of the House of Commons. When Skinner was first elected Bolsover was one of the safest Labour seats in the country, when the town still had a large mining community, but over the following half century with socioeconomic changes in the constituency Skinner's vote share dropped from 77% in 1970, still holding a high vote share of 65% in 2005, to only 36% in 2019, with the result that he lost the seat to the Conservatives by a margin of 11%. He was succeeded as the Labour candidate for Bolsover by Natalie Fleet.

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Skinner in 2011

Skinner was a strong supporter of the National Union of Mineworkers and their leader Arthur Scargill in the 1984–85 miners' strike. [36] Skinner refused to accept a parliamentary salary in excess of miners' wages, [37] and during the miners' strike he donated his wages to the NUM. [38]

Skinner voted for equalisation of the age of consent, civil partnerships, adoption rights for same-sex couples, to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, and for same-sex couples to marry, [39] and has a strongly pro-choice stance on abortion.

Following the sudden death of John Smith in 1994, Skinner was among the MPs to pay tribute to him, saying that despite coming from a different wing of the Labour Party, he and Smith "never had words in anger", and said that he would have become Prime Minister and praised Smith for "dragging the Labour Party from the depths of despair to the pinnacles of power." Skinner concluded his tribute by saying that the best tribute to Smith would be to pass the Disabled Person's Act in his memory. [40]

Skinner at the 2016 Labour Party Conference Dennis Skinner, 2016 Labour Party Conference.jpg
Skinner at the 2016 Labour Party Conference

In 2000, Skinner denounced former ally Ken Livingstone, then serving as a Labour MP. Livingstone had failed to win the party's nomination to be a candidate for Mayor of London, and had then decided to run as an independent candidate instead, urging his supporters to help Green Party candidates get elected. Skinner said that Livingstone had betrayed Labour Party activists in his Brent East constituency, whom he described as having fought for him "like tigers" when his majority had been small: "He tells them he's going to be the Labour candidate, then he lies to them. To me that's as low as you can get". He contrasted Livingstone with the official Labour candidate, Frank Dobson, saying that Dobson was "a bloke and a half... not a prima donna ... not someone with an ego as big as a house". Skinner said Livingstone would "hit the headlines, but you'll never be able to trust him because he's broken his pledge and his loyalty to his party. The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour Party". [41]

Conversely, despite his renowned left-wing views, Skinner for a long time had a positive relationship with Prime Minister Tony Blair, a leading figure on the right-wing of the party, stemming from advice that Skinner gave Blair regarding public speaking. [25] As recently as 2018, he described the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ministries as a "golden period" for the NHS. [42] However, Skinner strongly criticised Blair in 2019, after the former Prime Minister had advised pro-Remain Labour supporters who felt that the party's line on Brexit was too ambiguous to vote for explicitly pro-Remain parties in the 2019 European Parliament election; in the Morning Star , Skinner described Blair as a "destructive force" who was "try(ing) to destroy the Labour Party so people keep talking about his reign" and stating that he "went into Iraq and destroyed himself. He helped David Cameron and Theresa May into power. You're talking about a man who made a mess of it." [43]

Skinner supported David Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership election, which was won by his brother Ed Miliband. [44] In March 2011, he was one of 15 MPs [45] who voted against British participation in NATO's Libya intervention.

Skinner was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015. [46] Shortly after Corbyn was elected as leader, Skinner was elected to Labour's National Executive Committee, [47] on which he remained until October 2016. [48] Skinner supported Corbyn, alongside the majority of Labour MPs, in voting against the extension of RAF airstrikes against ISIS in Syria in December 2015. [49] [50]

Skinner has stated that he voted for the UK to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. [51]

Skinner favours outright abolition of the House of Lords. [52]

Suspensions

Skinner was suspended from Parliament on at least 10 occasions, usually for unparliamentary language when attacking opponents. Notable infractions included:

Queen's Speech quips

Known for his republican sentiments, Skinner regularly heckled during the annual Queen's Speech ceremony. He did this upon the arrival of Black Rod (the symbol of royal authority in the House of Lords) to summon MPs to hear the Queen's speech in the Lords' chamber. The best known, according to the New Statesman and other sources, [70] are listed as follows:

YearQuoteNotes
1987"Tell her to sell up!"A reference to the financial situation in the United Kingdom.
1988"Ey up, here comes Puss in Boots!"To Black Rod, Sir John Gingell.
1989"Oh, it's a good outfit!"To Black Rod, Sir John Gingell. [71]
1990"I bet he drinks Carling Black Label."
"It tolls for thee, Maggie." [72] 		Spoken to Black Rod; reference to a popular advertising campaign at the time. Later he made a second comment which was a reference to the impending departure of Margaret Thatcher. [73]
1992"Tell her to pay her tax!"In reference to the calls for the Queen to pay income tax. [74]
1993"Back to basics with Black Rod."A reference to the Back to Basics campaign by the then Conservative government of John Major. [75]
1995 and 1996"New Labour, New Black Rod!"A reference to Labour's election campaign slogan, "New Labour, New Britain" and to new Black Rod, Sir Edward Jones. [76]
1997"Do you want to borrow a Queen's Speech?"Told to Black Rod.
2000"Tell her to read The Guardian !"The Guardian was campaigning at the time to abolish the monarchy. [77] [76]
2001"You're nowt but a midget!"Told to new Black Rod Sir Michael Willcocks to much laughter in the chamber.
2003"Bar the doors."
"Did she lock the door behind her?"		Skinner suggested that the Speaker, Michael Martin, "bar the doors" after Black Rod had arrived, a practice that is used to block late-arriving MPs from casting their votes after the division bells have been sounded. After the command he also said, "Did she lock the door behind her?" to laughter from other MPs. Martin scoffed at Skinner's tongue-in-cheek remark.
2004"Aye, you've got a job to aspire to."Spoken to Black Rod. [78]
2005"Has she brought Camilla with her?"Of the Queen [79] in reference to the recent wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales. [80]
2006"Have you got Helen Mirren on standby?"Reference to Mirren's portrayal of Elizabeth II in the 2006 film, The Queen . [81]
2007"Who shot the harriers?"Referring to a recent event in Sandringham, where two protected hen harriers had been shot near a royal property. Prince Harry and a friend had been questioned by police over the incident. [76]
2008"Any Tory moles at the Palace?"Referring to the recent arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green in connection with an investigation about him receiving confidential information from a civil servant at the Home Office who was formerly a Conservative Party candidate; to which Black Rod quipped, "I shall miss you, Dennis", receiving laughter from other MPs. The 2008 State Opening of Parliament was Michael Willcocks's last as Black Rod. [82] [83]
2009"Royal Expenses are on the way."Reference to the parliamentary expenses scandal. [81]
2010"No royal commissions this week." [84] Reference to the recent newspaper story in the News of the World which revealed that the former Duchess of York had taken cash payments for introducing businessmen to the Duke of York. Whether through error or purpose, he made his one-liner in the middle of the speech by Yeoman Usher Ted Lloyd-Jukes, who was filling in for an ill Black Rod. At the end, the Yeoman Usher replied, "Thank you, Dennis".[ citation needed ]
2012"Jubilee Year, double-dip recession, what a start!"Referring to the Queen's Jubilee year and claims that the United Kingdom had just entered a second recession. This quip was responded to by a mixture of laughter and shouts of "Shame" and "Absolute disgrace". [85]
2013"Royal Mail for sale. Queen's head privatised."This was in reference to the coalition government's proposed privatisation of the Royal Mail, going against recently deceased Margaret Thatcher's promise that she was "not prepared to have the Queen's head privatised". [86]
2014"Coalition's last stand."Referring to the last 11 months of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition (and its final parliamentary session) before the election in May 2015. [87]
2015NoneSkinner later revealed to the press that his preoccupation with preventing newly elected SNP members (whose numbers had swelled to fifty-six from six after the 2010 election) taking his traditional seat on the opposition front bench prevented him from preparing a usual quip that year. He told The Daily Telegraph , "I was engaged in an activity today to ensure that the Scot Nats weren't going to take over that front bench. I was up at just after 6 o'clock and I had to do it yesterday." [88]
2016"Hands off the BBC!"Referencing the government's white paper on the BBC. [89]
2017"Yeah, get your skates on, first race is half past two!"Referencing the Queen's attendance at Royal Ascot later that day. [90]
2019"No, I'll not be going."As custom, Skinner did not attend the Queen's Speech.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Bolsover [91]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mark Fletcher 21,791 47.4 +6.9
Labour Dennis Skinner16,49235.9−16.0
Brexit Party Kevin Harper4,1519.0New
Liberal Democrats David Hancock1,7593.8+0.9
Green David Kesteven7581.7New
Independent Ross Walker5171.1New
Independent Natalie Hoy4701.0New
Majority5,29911.5N/A
Turnout 45,93861.1−2.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +11.5
General election 2017: Bolsover
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 24,153 51.9 +0.7
Conservative Helen Harrison18,86540.5+16.0
UKIP Philip Rose2,1294.6−16.4
Liberal Democrats Ross Shipman1,3722.9−0.4
Majority5,28811.4−15.3
Turnout 46,51963.3+2.2
Labour hold Swing −7.7
General election 2015: Bolsover [92]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 22,542 51.2 +1.2
Conservative Peter Bedford10,76424.5-0.1
UKIP Ray Calladine9,22821.0+17.1
Liberal Democrats David Lomax1,4643.3-12.2
Majority11,77826.7+1.3
Turnout 43,99861.1+0.6
Labour hold Swing +0.7
General election 2010: Bolsover [93]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 21,995 50.0
Conservative Lee Rowley 10,81224.6
Liberal Democrats Denise Hawksworth6,82115.5
BNP Martin Radford2,6406.0New
UKIP Ray Calladine1,7213.9New
Majority11,18325.4
Turnout 43,98960.5+3.2
Labour win (new boundaries)

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Bolsover [94]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 25,217 65.2 −3.4
Liberal Democrats Denise Hawksworth6,78017.5+5.6
Conservative Hasan Imam6,70217.3−2.2
Majority18,43747.7-1.4
Turnout 38,69957.3+0.8
Labour hold Swing −4.5
General election 2001: Bolsover [95]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 26,249 68.6 −5.4
Conservative Simon Massey7,47219.5+2.8
Liberal Democrats Marie Bradley4,55011.9+2.6
Majority18,77749.1-7.8
Turnout 38,27156.5−14.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Bolsover [96] [97] [98] [99]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 35,073 74.0 +9.5
Conservative Richard Harwood7,92416.7−8.6
Liberal Democrats Ian Cox4,4179.3−0.9
Majority27,14957.3+18.1
Turnout 47,41471.3-7.8
Labour hold Swing +9.1
General election 1992: Bolsover [100] [101]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 33,978 64.5 +8.3
Conservative Timothy D.R. James13,32325.3−3.0
Liberal Democrats Susan P. Barber5,36810.2−5.3
Majority20,65539.2+11.3
Turnout 52,66979.1+1.8
Labour hold Swing +5.7

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Bolsover [102]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 28,453 56.2 -0.1
Conservative Michael Lingens14,33328.3+1.4
SDP Mark Fowler7,83615.5-1.3
Majority14,12027.9-1.5
Turnout 50,62277.3+4.6
Labour hold Swing -0.7
General election 1983: Bolsover [103]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner 26,514 56.3
Conservative S. Roberts12,66626.9
SDP S. Reddish7,88616.8
Majority13,84829.4
Turnout 47,06672.7-5.6
Labour win (new boundaries)

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Bolsover
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner27,49566.58
Conservative Anthony Favell 10,11624.49
Liberal James Ian Frost3,6888.93
Majority17,37942.09
Turnout 41,29978.31
Labour hold Swing
General election October 1974: Bolsover
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner27,27570.55
Conservative C.L. Sternberg6,20916.06
Liberal M. Taylor5,17613.39New
Majority21,06654.49
Turnout 38,66074.52
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Bolsover
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner30,78776.47-1.03
Conservative A.R. Dix9,47423.53+1.03
Majority21,31352.94-2.06
Turnout 40,26178.38
Labour hold Swing
General election 1970: Bolsover
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dennis Skinner28,83077.50
Conservative Ivor J Humphrey8,37122.50
Majority20,45955.00
Turnout 37,20170.76
Labour hold Swing

After parliament (2019–present)

During the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election which was won by Angela Rayner, Skinner endorsed Richard Burgon for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, saying "I'm backing Richard to be Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Richard is a socialist who never gives in and never gives up. He gives me hope for the future of our Party. I urge CLPs & unions to nominate Richard and members to vote for him." [104]

On 6 May 2020, Skinner was named honorary president of the Socialist Campaign Group. [105]

Nature of the Beast documentary

A documentary about Skinner sanctioned by him, Nature of the Beast, was completed in 2017 by production company Shut Out The Light. The documentary traces Skinner's rise to political icon status and covers his working-class upbringing, his family influences and his hobbies away from "The Palace of Varieties". Skinner's four surviving brothers and several of his Bolsover constituents are interviewed in the documentary. [10]

Stage play

Derby Theatre commissioned Kevin Fegan to write a play inspired by Skinner, titled The Palace of Varieties – life and times of Dennis Skinner, which was performed at the theatre in early 2022. [106] [107] [108]

Tony Skinner's Lad

In September 2020, Robb Johnson's song about Skinner, Tony Skinner's Lad, topped the Amazon download chart. [109]

Personal life

In 1960, Skinner married Mary Parker, from whom he separated in 1989. [10] He has three children and four grandchildren.[ citation needed ] Since the 1990s, his partner has been former researcher Lois Blasenheim. [10]

Skinner signing a copy of his book in October 2014 Dennis Skinner book signing (15326199070).jpg
Skinner signing a copy of his book in October 2014

In 2014, Skinner released his autobiography Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences. In an interview he gave later in the year, Skinner stated that he had never sent an email and did not have a Twitter account, and when asked what he considered Cameron's biggest achievement to be, Skinner said "I can't trust him as far as I can throw him." [110]

In 1999, Skinner was diagnosed with advanced bladder cancer and subsequently had surgery to remove a malignant tumour. [10] In 2003, he underwent a double heart bypass operation. [10] He underwent hip surgery in 2019. [111] He was too ill to campaign in the 2019 general election after he was hospitalised with a dangerous infection following the hip operation. [112] [ better source needed ] He was not present at the count when he lost his seat. [111]

Skinner's mother was diagnosed [113] with Alzheimer's disease prior to her death [114] in the 1980s. [113] Skinner sang to his late mother when she was diagnosed with the disease and was inspired by her ability to recall old songs. Since 2008, he has visited care homes in Derbyshire to sing to elderly patients with dementia. [113]

Skinner is a supporter of Derby County Football Club and Derbyshire County Cricket Club. [115] [116]

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