Brian Sedgemore
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Member of Parliament for Hackney South and Shoreditch |
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In office 10 June 1983 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Ronald Brown |
| Succeeded by | Meg Hillier |
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Member of Parliament for Luton West |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Established |
| Succeeded by | John Russell Carlisle |
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Brian Charles John Sedgemore 17 March 1937 Exmouth, Devon |
| Died | 29 April 2015 (aged 78) North London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
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Labour Party (until 2005) |
| Spouse(s) | Audrey Reece (1964-2002) div. |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Brian Charles John Sedgemore (17 March 1937 – 29 April 2015) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom; he was a Member of Parliament from 1974 until 1979, and from 1983 until 2005. A left-winger, he defected to the Liberal Democrats shortly before he stood down at the 2005 general election.
Brian Sedgemore was born in Exmouth, Devon, and with his two siblings was raised by his mother; his father, a stoker in the Royal Navy, died during active service in World War II.
He attended Newtown Primary School in Newtown, Exeter, and Hele's School, Exeter, a grammar school. He did RAF national service from 1956 to 1958. He read PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and graduated in 1962. While working as a Whitehall civil servant, he trained at night as a barrister specialising in Criminal Law at Middle Temple, London, being called to the bar in 1966. During the 1970s he and fellow barrister David Fingleton contributed pseudonymous articles on politics and the police and criminal justice system to the Private Eye column Justinian Forthemoney. He wrote a number of books including The Secret Constitution and a novel, Power Failure.
Sedgemore was first elected to the House of Commons at the February 1974 general election for Luton West, but lost this seat in 1979. In 1976 he voted for Tony Benn, the Energy Secretary, in the Labour leadership election and during 1978–79 served as Benn's Parliamentary Private Secretary, or PPS. Early in 1979 he was forced to resign over a leak of Treasury papers on the European Exchange Rate Mechanism to the Treasury Select Committee. Having lost his seat, he worked as a journalist for Granada Television.
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