Jack Dromey
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Jack Dromey MP |
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Dromey speaking to Policy Exchange in 2013
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| Shadow Minister for Labour | |
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Assumed office 10 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Shadow Minister for Policing | |
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In office 7 October 2013 – 27 June 2016 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (acting) Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | David Hanson |
| Succeeded by | Lyn Brown |
| Shadow Minister for Housing | |
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In office 7 October 2010 – 7 October 2013 |
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| Leader |
Harriet Harman Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Lyn Brown |
| Succeeded by | Andy Sawford |
| Treasurer of the Labour Party | |
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In office 30 September 2004 – 26 September 2010 |
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| Leader |
Tony Blair Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Jimmy Elsby |
| Succeeded by | Diana Holland |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Siôn Simon |
| Majority | 5,129 (14.8%) |
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21 September 1948 Brent, Middlesex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Harriet Harman |
| Residence | Herne Hill, South London and Suffolk |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Jack Dromey |
Jack Dromey is a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist, born on 21 September 1948. He has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington since the 2010 General Election and was appointed Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government in the Ed Miliband shadow front bench. He became Shadow Policing Minister in 2013 but resigned from this position on 27 June 2016. On 10 October 2016, he returned to the frontbench by becoming Shadow Minister for Labour.
He was previously the Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Treasurer of the Labour Party. He is married to Harriet Harman.
Dromey was born to Irish parents in Brent and raised in Kilburn, London. He was educated at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Holland Park.
In the early 1970s, while working at the Brent Law Centre, Dromey was elected as Chairman of his branch of the Transport and General Workers Union and as a delegate to the Brent Trades Council. In 1973 he took a leading role in planning the occupation of Centre Point, along with prominent Housing and Direct Action campaigners Jim Radford and Ron Bailey. This high-profile event was designed to highlight and publicise the perceived injustice of London's most prominent (and tallest) building development - which included a number of luxury flats - remaining empty year after year while tens of thousands of people languished on housing waiting lists across the capital. The event was postponed in 1973 but eventually carried out successfully in January the following year.
Jack Dromey built a reputation as an effective speaker and organiser in the Trade Union Movement and through his involvement with Brent Trades Council and the Greater London Association of Trades Councils, who sent him as a delegate to the South East Regional Council of the Trades Union Congress. As an officer of the local Trades Council he also had a prominent role in supporting the strike at the Grunwick film processing laboratory which lasted from 1976 to 1978. The mostly-female Asian workforce at Grunwick went on strike to demand that company boss George Ward recognise their union; instead, Ward dismissed the strikers, leading to a two-year-long confrontation involving mass picketing and some violence. The strike was ultimately unsuccessful.
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