Jerry Hayes
| Jerry Hayes | |
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Member of Parliament for Harlow |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Stan Newens |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rammell |
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| Born | 20 April 1953 |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Hayes |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Profession | Law |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Jeremy Joseph James Hayes (born 20 April 1953) is a British former Conservative politician, the MP for Harlow in Essex from 1983 until 1997. He subsequently returned to practising criminal law.
He was Member of Parliament for Harlow in Essex from 1983. He served on the Health and Heritage Select Committees and was a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office and the Department of Environment. He introduced a number of Acts including the Sexual Offences Act, the Nurse Prescribing Act and the Video Recordings Act. Hayes lost his seat to Bill Rammell, the Labour Party candidate, in the 1997 general election.
Hayes was on the left on the Conservative Party, unlike most of the 1983 intake of Conservative MPs. Hayes opposed capital punishment and fought for free dental and eye check-ups. On his blog, Hayes stated "I'm on the independent left of the Conservative Party. During the Thatcher years I was regarded as a rebel. Heaven knows why, I just believed in social justice and pragmatism. But in those days that was about as popular as a rat sandwich. On one occasion I reduced our majority from 140 to 4. I was not always popular with the right". Once, when asked why he did not support Blair's "New Labour" endeavour, he replied "They're too right-wing". On the BBC Question Time programme on 9 May 2013, he expressed the view that there was a real danger that the entire legal profession would be placed in the hands of G4S within a couple of years. It was on this same programme that he expressed his view that "Clearly they weren't raped because the person wasn't prosecuted."
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