John Spellar
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The Right Honourable John Spellar MP |
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| Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 9 October 2010 – 2015 |
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| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Chris Bryant |
| Comptroller of the Household | |
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In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Tommy McAvoy |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Carmichael |
| Minister of State for Northern Ireland | |
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In office 12 June 2003 – 11 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Jane Kennedy |
| Succeeded by | David Hanson |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 12 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston |
| Succeeded by | Kim Howells |
| Minister of State for the Armed Forces | |
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In office 29 July 1999 – 8 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Doug Henderson |
| Succeeded by | Adam Ingram |
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Member of Parliament for Warley Warley West (1992–1997) |
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Assumed office 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Archer |
| Majority | 10,756 (28.1%) |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield |
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In office 28 October 1982 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Jocelyn Cadbury |
| Succeeded by | Roger King |
| Personal details | |
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5 August 1947 Bromley, Kent, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Website | Party website |
John Francis Spellar (born 5 August 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley. He served as a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office and returned to the backbenches in 2005. Spellar was Comptroller of the Household and the third most senior whip in the Whips' Office between October 2008 and May 2010.
Spellar was born in Bromley and educated at Dulwich College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford and worked as a trade union official. He was the Political Officer of the EETPU in the early 1980s, and along with John Golding, Roger Godsiff and a number of moderate trade union leaders, he was a founding member of the St Ermins Group of Labour Party moderates who organised to prevent the Bennite hard-left taking over the party in the years 1979-1983.
He was a councillor in the London Borough of Bromley between 1970 and 1974.
Spellar stood for the constituency of Bromley at the 1970 general election and came second.
He was first elected to the House of Commons in the Birmingham Northfield by-election, 1982 but lost at the 1983 General Election. At the 1987 general election he stood again for the same seat but was again unsuccessful. Spellar returned to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election becoming the MP for Warley West and was appointed an opposition whip. Following a period as opposition spokesman for Northern Ireland in 1994, he was moved to shadow Defence ministers in 1995.
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