Michael Clapham

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Michael Clapham
Member of Parliament
for
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1943-05-15) 15 May 1943 (age 81)
Leeds Metropolitan University

Michael Clapham (born 15 May 1943) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley West and Penistone from 1992 to 2010.

Early life

Born in

Leeds Polytechnic, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in 1973. He earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Leeds in 1974, and a Master of Philosophy at the University of Bradford
in 1990.

In 1974, he

miners' strike of 1984–1985, he stepped down on his election to the House of Commons
in 1992.

Parliamentary career

Clapham was the treasurer of the Barnsley West and Penistone Constituency Labour Party after 1983. He was elected as the MP there at the 1992 General Election following the retirement of Allen McKay, holding the seat with a majority of 14,504. He made his maiden speech, speaking on the concerns in the local coal mining industry, on 6 May 1992.[2]

Clapham is a

Trade and Industry Committee from 1992 to 1997 and again from 2003; in between he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Milburn following the 1997 general election, but he resigned over Harriet Harman's decision to cut lone parent benefits in December of that year. He used to be very loyal to his old boss Arthur Scargill, but later criticised him for being too Stalinist
.

His voting record shows him to be against many of Tony Blair's policies, including ID cards, student top-up fees and the Iraq war.

Clapham announced he would stand down at the next general election; his constituency became part of the new constituency of Penistone and Stocksbridge.

Personal life

Clapham is a Distinguished Supporter of

Republic, a campaign to replace the British monarchy with an elected head of state.[3]
He has been married to Yvonne Hallsworth since 1965 and they have a son and a daughter.

References

  1. ^ "Wakefield College | Whitwood Campus". Archived from the original on 18 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  2. ^ House of Commons Hansard Debates Archived 29 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Hansard, 6 May 1992
  3. ^ Servistech (6 July 2012). "About Republic". Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2008.

External links

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