David Winnick

Biography:

David Winnick was re-elected MP for Walsall North on May 7th 2015 with 14392 votes, taking 39.0% of the vote.

Winnick was an advertising manager and a branch chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. He was a councillor from 1959 on Willesden Borough Council, then the London Borough of Brent.

Winnick was first elected as an MP in 1966, for Croydon South (now the area roughly covered by Croydon Central constituency), defeating incumbent Richard Thompson. He lost his seat to Thompson in 1970, he then studied for a diploma in social administration at the London School of Economics and stood again in Croydon in October 1974 and was returned for Walsall North in 1979.

Winnick is generally regarded as on the left of the Labour Party and has a strong commitment to human rights. That commitment, however, also made him a strong voice in the House of Commons against both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and he supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

On 9 November 2005, Winnick’s amendment to a government bill on detention of terrorist suspects without trial – proposing that the maximum period of detention should be 28 days, rather than 90 – passed in the House of Commons by 323 votes to 290, shortly after the government’s 90-day proposal was defeated by 322 to 291. This was Tony Blair’s first Commons defeat on a whipped vote, after nearly nine years as Prime Minister.

Constituency: Walsall North

Constituency Address: 47 Field Road, Bloxwich, Walsall, WS3 3JD

Constituency Tel: 01922 492084

Date of Birth: 26 June 1933

Email: david.winnick.mp@parliament.uk

Party: Labour

Personal Website: http://www.davidwinnick.webs.com/

Westminster Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel: 020 7219 5003