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John Spellar was born on 5 August, 1947 in Bromley, Kent, England, is a British politician (born 1947). Discover John Spellar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 5 August, 1947
Birthday 5 August
Birthplace Bromley, Kent, England
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1947

John Francis Spellar (born 5 August 1947) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley, formerly Warley West, since 1992.

1967

He was Chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club in 1967.

1969

Spellar was the Political Officer of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU) from 1969 to 1992, and was a speech-writer for general secretaries Frank Chapple and Eric Hammond.

1970

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 as Labour's youngest candidate.

1981

As a young union officer he attended, along with John Golding and Roger Godsiff, the St Ermin's group of senior trade union leaders who organised to prevent the Bennite left taking over the party in the years 1981–1987.

Spellar was married to dentist Anne Wilmot from 1981 until her death in 2003.

They had a daughter.

1982

A member of the Labour Party, he previously represented Birmingham Northfield from 1982 to 1983.

He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1982 Birmingham Northfield by-election but lost at the 1983 General Election to the Conservative candidate, Roger King.

1987

At the 1987 general election he stood again for the same seat but was again unsuccessful against Roger King.

1992

Spellar returned to the House of Commons in the 1992 general election becoming the MP for Warley West with a majority of 5,472, and was appointed an opposition whip.

1994

Following a period as opposition spokesman for Northern Ireland in 1994, he was moved to shadow Defence minister in 1995.

1997

He served as a minister in numerous departments between 1997 and 2005 and later served as Comptroller of the Household in the Whips' Office between 2008 and 2010.

At the 1997 general election, Spellar was elected as MP for the new Warley constituency (as Warley West had been abolished in a boundary review).

1999

In the new Labour government, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, being promoted to become Minister of State for the Armed Forces in 1999.

2001

In 2001, he was appointed to the Privy Council, as Minister of State for Transport in the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions with rights to attend Cabinet.

2002

After the 2002 reshuffle, he became Minister of State at the Department for Transport, and moved to the Northern Ireland Office in 2003.

He was banned from the offices of both the Mayor of Derry and the Mayor of Belfast during that year, because he supported the reinstatement to the British Army of convicted murderers Mark Wright and James Fisher of the Scots Guards.

2005

He left the front benches in 2005, but in 2008, he rejoined the government as a whip (Comptroller of the Household) and served until Labour entered opposition in May 2010.

2010

After Labour entered opposition, he served as a shadow Foreign Office minister from 2010 to 2015.

Spellar was born in Bromley and educated at Dulwich College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

2015

In November 2015, Spellar he suggested that his party leader Jeremy Corbyn should resign over the question of whether to conduct air strikes on ISIL in Syria.

2016

Spellar supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour leadership election.

2017

In November 2017, Spellar was appointed as a member of the UK parliament delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Spellar is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

He is a Director of the centre-left Labour grouping, Labour First and also of the Henry Jackson Society Advisory Council.