Everything about John Grogan totally explained
John Timothy Grogan is the
Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of
Selby.
Early life
John Grogan was born in
Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of a teacher, he was educated at St Michael's RC College on St John's Road (near the
University of Leeds) in
Leeds, a Jesuit school, and
St John's College, Oxford where he was awarded a
BA degree in
Modern history and
Economics in 1982, he also served as the president of the
Oxford University Student Union.
He worked as a communications coordinator with the
City of Leeds Council from 1987 to 1994 before setting up his own conference business from 1996-7. He worked for the Labour Party in various capacities in both Leeds and
Wolverhampton. He also acted as the Labour Party press officer in the
European Parliament at
Brussels in 1995.
Parliamentary career
He unsuccessfully contested the
North Yorkshire seat of Selby at the
1987 General Election but was defeated by the veteran
Conservative MP
Michael Alison by some 13,779 votes. He again contested the seat based on
Selby at the
1992 General Election but was again defeated by Alison, but by a reduced 9,508 votes.
In between the two unsuccessful contests at Selby he also stood unsuccessfully for the
York seat to become a
member of the European Parliament in 1989. He was elected to the
House of Commons at the
1997 General Election for Selby. Alison retired at the election and Grogan faced the new challenge of a former Conservative MP
Kenneth Hind who had been the MP for
Lancashire West (1983-1992). Grogan won the seat with a majority of 3,836 and has been elected with increasingly smaller majorities ever since. In 2005, he kept his seat with a majority of 467 votes.
He made his
maiden speech on
7 July 1997 (see
(External Link
)).
In
parliament he served as a member of the
Northern Ireland select committee from 1997-2001 and since the
2005 General Election. He is a member of the
Fabian Society and the
Institute for Public Policy Research.
He is also the chairman of the
all party groups on the
BBC,
beer and
Mongolia. He lives in the constituency at
Fulford, and is a supporter of both the
Yorkshire County Cricket Club and
Bradford City A.F.C.. He led the campaign to save the Selby
Coalfield in 2002 (see
(External Link)). In 1999 he called for a memorial to the heroism of women during
World War II to be remembered on the empty plinth in
Trafalgar Square.
The campaign had the backing of the
Speaker of the House of Commons Betty Boothroyd and the
Princess Royal (see
(External Link)). Although the campaign was unsuccessful a monument has since been erected in
Whitehall.
He has announced he won't contest the next general election, after the seat of Selby was split in two.
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