Kevin Hughes

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Kevin Michael Hughes (* 15. December 1952 in Doncaster , South Yorkshire , † 16th July 2006 ) was a British miner and politician of the Labor Party , of the 1992-2005 Constituency Doncaster North as a deputy in the House of Commons represented and 1996 to 2001 as Government Whip Parliamentary Secretary of the Labor Group in the House of Commons.

Life

Bergmann, NUM functionary and local politician

Hughes, the son of a miner and a school secretary, also began a career as a miner after attending Owston Park Secondary School in 1970 and worked in a mine for 15 years until 1985. First he became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1977 , but joined the Labor Party in 1978. With the support of the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) , he also graduated from the University of Sheffield and worked as a NUM shop steward in the Brodsworth coal mines .

This led him to become the Yorkshire NUM trade union secretary in 1983 . During this time he was involved in the fight against the closure of small local mines and the privatization of mining, although he took a negative stance in the miners' strike led by Arthur Scargill in 1984/1985 .

Hughes began his political engagement in 1986 when he was elected to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster . In the following years he was accused by the playwright and former councilor Ron Rose of being involved in the Donnygate Scandal . This municipal bribery scandal led to an extensive police investigation and charges against 21 people. However, no charges were brought against him.

House of Commons and Whip

With the support of the miners' union NUM, he was nominated as a candidate for the Labor Party in the safe constituency of Doncaster North for the next general election in 1990, after the previous constituency holder Michael "Mick" Welsh had renounced the candidacy.

In the elections of April 9, 1992 Hughes was elected to the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until 2005 the constituency of Doncaster North . In his first election he was able to prevail with 34,135 votes clearly against his opponent from the Conservative Party , Robin Light, who received 14,322 votes, and against his challenger from the Liberal Party , Steven Whiting, who got 6,787 votes.

After the death of the leader of the Labor Party , John Smith , he supported the successful candidacy of Tony Blair in 1994 for the function of the party leader and his course of the so-called New Labor . In 1996 he became Parliamentary Secretary of the Labor Group and, after the victory in the general election on May 1, 1997, between 1997 and 2001, he acted as Parliamentary Secretary of the Government Majority (Assistant Government Whip) . He himself was re-elected in the 1997 general election with a majority of around 20,000 votes and in the June 7, 2001 election with a majority of more than 15,000 votes.

He then remained as a backbencher (Backbencher) remains a member of the House and loyal to the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair . In November 2001, he defended Interior Secretary David Blunkett's tough anti-terrorist legislation against liberal and left-wing critics with words such as:

“Don't find it bizarre that the yogurt and cereal fraternity of Guardian readers are only too happy to protect the human rights of those affected by terrorist laws, but not even talk about the human rights of those affected by terrorism are?"
'Don't you find it bizarre that the yogurt- and muesli-eating Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to protect the human rights of people engaged in terrorist acts, but never once do they talk about the human rights of those affected by them? '

In 2003 he supported Britain's participation in the Iraq war . After suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , an incurable degenerative disease of the motor nervous system , he decided not to run again in the general election on May 5, 2005 . His successor in the constituency of Doncaster North was then Ed Miliband .

His marriage to Lynda Saunders in 1972 resulted in a son and daughter.

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Kevin Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster , South Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2006
Place of death Doncaster , South Yorkshire