Misplaced Pages

George Mudie (politician)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from George Mudie (MP)) British politician (born 1945)

George Mudie
Deputy Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons
Treasurer of the Household
In office
2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byAndrew MacKay
Succeeded byKeith Bradley
Member of Parliament
for Leeds East
In office
9 April 1992 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byDenis Healey
Succeeded byRichard Burgon
Leader of Leeds City Council
In office
1980–1989
Preceded byPeter Sparling
Succeeded byJon Trickett
Leeds City Councillor
for Seacroft Ward
In office
1971–1992
Preceded byD. Ball
Succeeded byGraham Hyde
Personal details
BornGeorge Edward Mudie
(1945-02-06) 6 February 1945 (age 79)
Dundee, Angus, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Children3

George Edward Mudie (born 6 February 1945) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East from 1992 to 2015.

Early life

Born in Dundee, Scotland's fourth-largest city, Mudie was educated at the Waid Academy in Anstruther and later studied Social Studies at Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith. He worked initially as an engineer and then joined the merchant navy. In 1968 he became a trade union official with the National Union of Public Employees, a position he held until his election to the House of Commons in 1992.

Parliamentary career

Mudie was elected as a Leeds City Councillor in 1971 at the age of 26 and became the Council Leader from 1980 to 1989, elected as the authority's youngest leader to date at the age of 35 following the 1980 council election.

He was then elected as the Labour MP for Leeds East at the 1992 General Election following the retirement of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. He held the seat comfortably until his retirement in 2015.

In Parliament he was appointed as an Opposition Whip in 1994, a position he held until the Labour landslide at the 1997 election when he was elevated to become the Treasurer of HM Household and Deputy Chief Whip. In 1998 he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education and Employment. He returned to the back benches in 1999.

He served on a number of select committees, and was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2001 to 2014.

In February 2013, Mudie voted against the second reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Subsequently, in May 2013 the MP voted against the bill’s third and final reading, opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage within England and Wales.

Personal life

He is married with three children, one from a former marriage. He named his eldest son Keir after Keir Hardie. His wife is a retired primary school headmistress.

References

  1. "Long-serving Leeds MP to stand down". BBC News. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. "MP-by-MP: Gay marriage vote". BBC News. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. "The Public Whip — Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Third Reading - 21 May 2013 at 18:59". www.publicwhip.org.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2024.

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byDenis Healey Member of Parliament for Leeds East
1992–2015 		Succeeded byRichard Burgon
Political offices
Preceded byAndrew MacKay Treasurer of the Household
1997–1998 		Succeeded byKeith Bradley
Categories: