David Clelland
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Member of Parliament for Tyne Bridge |
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In office 6 December 1985 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Harry Cowans |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
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27 June 1943 Gateshead |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Maureen Potts (married 1965, separated 1998, died 2007), Brenda Graham (married 2005) |
| Children | 2 from first marriage |
David Gordon Clelland (born 27 June 1943) is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyne Bridge from 1985 until 2010.
David Clelland was born in Gateshead and educated locally at the Kelvin Grove Boys' School (now a primary school) and the Gateshead and Hebburn Technical College. After leaving education in 1959 he was an electrical fitter for Reyrolle in Hebburn for twenty-two years from 1964. He was elected as a councillor in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1972 and became its leader in 1984.
He was selected to contest the 1985 Tyne Bridge by-election, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, which had become vacant following the death of the MP Harry Cowans. Clelland won the seat at the by-election on 5 December 1985 with a majority of 6,575. At the by-election he defeated Rod Kenyon and Jacqui Lait, the future Conservative Member of Parliament for Beckenham.
In Parliament David Clelland served on the Home Affairs Select Committee from 1986 until he joined the Energy Select Committee for a year in 1989. He became a whip in opposition in 1995 under the leadership of Tony Blair and was made an Assistant Government Whip in office following the 1997 General Election. He was promoted to become a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury, a 'full' whip, in January 2001.
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