Ian Lavery
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Ian Lavery MP |
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| Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office | |
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Assumed office 7 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Tom Watson |
| Shadow Minister for Trade Unions and Civil Society | |
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In office 13 September 2015 – 7 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
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Member of Parliament for Wansbeck |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Denis Murphy |
| Majority | 7,031 (18.4%) |
| President of the National Union of Mineworkers | |
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In office 2002–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Arthur Scargill |
| Succeeded by | Nicky Wilson |
| Personal details | |
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6 January 1963 Ashington, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | Ian Liam |
| Website | Official website |
Ian Lavery (born 6 January 1963) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck since the 2010 general election. Lavery was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers, and is a figure in the left-wing of his party.
Lavery has lived in Ashington all of his life. After leaving old East School school, Lavery started on a youth training scheme, before working in the construction industry. Following a recruitment campaign by the National Coal Board, he commenced work at Lynemouth Colliery in January 1980. In July 1980 Lavery started a mining craft apprenticeship. In 1981 he transferred to Ellington Colliery and went to college, receiving an HNC in Mining.
During the 1984–85 Miners' Strike Lavery was the only apprentice in the North East area who refused to go to work. He was arrested seven times during the strike.
In 1986, Lavery was elected onto the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) committee at Ellington Colliery as Compensation Secretary. Later, he was voted on to the Northumberland Executive Committee, and then on to the North East Area Executive Committee. He claims that because of his union activity, he was barred by management from completing his HND qualification:
"I was the only one in the whole of the North East Area who had completed the HNC who wasn't given that opportunity. I went to see the manager, not that I would have gone by the way, and he said that they didn't think I would be interested. I asked him if he had thought to ask me, and he said no, not really, and he was smiling as he said it."
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