Dale Campbell-Savors, Baron Campbell-Savors

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Dale Campbell-Savors, Baron Campbell-Savors

Dale Norman Campbell-Savors, Baron Campbell-Savors (born August 23, 1943 ) is a British politician ( Labor Party ). From 1979 to 2001 he was a Member of the House of Commons and is currently a member of the House of Lords .

life and career

Campbell-Savors attended the Keswick School and the Sorbonne in Paris and became managing director of a company that manufactures clocks and metal components. He has been a member of the UNISON union since 1970 . From 1972 to 1974 he was Councilor with the Ramsbottom Urban District Council . He ran as a candidate in the general election in February and October 1974 in the constituency of Darwen and in Workington in a 1976 by-election. Campbell-Savors is the Patron of the Cumbria Deaf Association at the Cumbria Rural Academy and is President of Allerdale Mind and the Cumberland County League . His hobbies include music and trout fishing.

Membership in the House of Commons

In the 1979 general election for the Workington constituency , Campbell-Savors was elected to the House of Commons and held this seat until 2001. In the House of Commons he was a member of the Public Accounts Committee from 1980 to 1991 , of the Procedure Committee from 1983 to 1991 and of the Member's Interests Select Committee of 1983 to 1992, and from 1994 to 1996 in the Agriculture Committee. He was also a member of the Standards and Privileges Committee from 1996 to 2001 and of the Intelligence and Security Committee from 1997 to 2001 .

He made his inaugural address on July 13, 1979 on the Abortion (Amendment) Bill . In the 1980s, he spoke out on topics such as steel imports, school meals, the closure of factories and Nelson Mandela . Campbell-Savors spoke in the 1990s on family policy, exports, local government and driving licenses.

From 1991 to 1992 Campbell-Savors was the opposition spokesman for international development and from 1992 to 1994 the opposition spokesman for food, agriculture and rural affairs.

Membership in the House of Lords

On July 4, 2001, he was named Life Peer as Baron Campbell-Savors , of Allerdale in the County of Cumbria . The official introduction to the House of Lords took place on July 19, 2001 with the assistance of Denis Carter, Baron Carter , and Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld . He gave his inaugural address on October 4, 2001. His political interests are social work, education and health reform, as well as economic democracy .

He addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly , the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan , Zimbabwe and House of Lords reform in the 2000s . Since 2010 he has spoken out on taxes, the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill and terrorism. Campbell-Savors advocates reforming rape law to better protect innocent people from false suspicion. He also used his parliamentary immunity to reveal the identity of a person who had made a number of false rape allegations. This person had previously remained anonymous, despite the fact that their allegations resulted in an innocent person being sentenced to three years in prison. Campbell-Savores received great praise for his initiative.

family

Campbell-Savors has been married to Gudrun Kristin Runolfsdottir since 1970. They had three sons, one of whom, Dylan, died from Hodgkin's lymphoma . A daughter of Dylan was born 18 months after her father died.

Publications

  • The case for the Supplementary Vote , unknown publisher, 1990, ISBN unknown
  • The case for the University of the Lakes , publisher unknown, 1995, ISBN unknown

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Campbell-Savors Excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of July 19, 2001
  2. ↑ MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS minutes of the House of Lords of 19 July 2001
  3. ↑ Sex attack liar named by the Peer Article in the Daily Mail, October 19, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Campbell-Savors, Dale, Baron Campbell-Savors
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell-Savors, Dale Norman, Baron Campbell-Savors (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor)
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1943