Alice Mahon
| Alice Mahon | |
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| Member of Parliament for Halifax |
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In office 12 June 1987 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Galley |
| Succeeded by | Linda Riordan |
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| Born |
28 September 1937 Halifax, West Yorkshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Party (resigned 2009) |
| Spouse(s) | Tony Mahon John Gledhill (div.) |
| Alma mater | University of Bradford |
Alice Mahon (born 28 September 1937) is a British former Labour Party politician and trade unionist.
She was Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1987 until 2005. She is a left-winger who was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group and is a Eurosceptic. A frequent rebel against the Labour government elected in 1997, Mahon stepped down from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election and was succeeded by a Labour councillor, Linda Riordan. She resigned from the Labour Party in April 2009, saying she can no longer tolerate how the party operates. Mahon, who has a history of peace activism, opposed the Iraq War and missile defence plans in her time in office. She sought to protect benefits for parents, women's rights (particularly in regard to abortion), and gay rights. Mahon was also a supporter of reform of the House of Lords.
She attended a grammar school in Halifax. In 1979, she gained a BA in Social Policy from the University of Bradford. She worked in the NHS as a nursing auxiliary for ten years. She taught Trade Union Studies at Bradford College from 1980 to 1987 and was a councillor on Calderdale Council.
In November 2005, a film documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci of Italy's Rai News 24, The Hidden Massacre, asserted that the US military had used White Phosphorus (WP) as an incendiary weapon, including against civilians in Fallujah during operation Phantom Fury. The RAI documentary also quoted a 13 June 2005 UK MOD letter to former Labour MP Alice Mahon stating that:
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