John Tomlinson (politician)

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John Edward Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson (* 1. August 1939 in London ) is a British politician of the Labor Party .

education and profession

Tomlinson attended Westminster City School and Loughborough Co-operative College . He later studied health management at Brunel University and received his Masters of Arts from Warwick University in 1982 .

From 1968 to 1970 he worked in a leading position for the union “Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers”.

After being voted out of the House of Commons in 1979, he accepted a teaching position at the Solihull College of Technology.

politics

From 1974 and 1979 he was an MP in the House of Commons for the constituency of Meriden . During his tenure, he also held a number of government offices. From 1975 to 1976 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Prime Minister Harold Wilson , from 1976 to 1979 Parliamentary Undersecretary in the State Department and from 1977 to 1979 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Development Aid Department.

From 1984 to 1999 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Birmingham West constituency .

On July 21, 1998, as Baron Tomlinson , of Walsall in the County of West Midlands , he was made a Life Peer and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

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SURNAME Tomlinson, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomlinson, John Edward, Baron Tomlinson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons, MEP, Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH London